On 2014-1-19 05:20 , Frank Schima wrote:
> 
> On Jan 17, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Shouldn’t you depend on perl5.16 instead of perl5 and ensure you’re using 
>> /opt/local/bin/perl5.16 instead of /opt/local/bin/perl? The symlinks 
>> installed by the perl5 port, like the symlinks installed by “port select”, 
>> are ideally intended for the user’s convenience, not something other ports 
>> should rely upon.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. Any p5.16-* dependency will already add perl-5.16. I 
> just felt it was confusing for new Macports users installing this port to 
> also get perl5.12 installed. I suppose this is part of the problem of the 
> Macports perl default version being only 5.12 and needing to be updated to a 
> more modern version. 
> 
> I know we’ve had perl discussions before and it ultimately did not get 
> changed so far. I think we should simply update the default perl - in the 
> perl5 port at least - to 5.16. When more perl 5.18 subports are added, we can 
> move up to that. I think the big stumbling block is the desire to change all 
> perl ports to the new default immediately. I don’t have the time right now to 
> be that thorough. And no one in particular is attending to all of the perl 
> ports. 

Done, r116111 and r116112. Note that this will probably expose some
ports that don't have their INTLTOOL_PERL check removed.

- Josh
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