On May 23, 2012, at 8:14 p.m., Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> It seems weird to me that a change in the portgroup should be allowed to 
> create new subports in ports that have not themselves been modified to 
> indicate that that's ok. It seems to me that instead each p5 port should be 
> specifying which perl versions it's compatible with. Thus, when a new version 
> of perl is released, each p5 port would be modified to indicate its 
> compatibility with that new version, thus getting that port's new p5.16 
> subport into the index at that time. That's at least the approach I'm taking 
> in the new unified php ports.


This is also the way that subports for Python modules work.

vq

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