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 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
