On Apr 4, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > > People are still trying to figure out how to deal with perl ports; there > > was a recent aborted attempt at building a port select mechanism for it > > instead of that perl5 metaport with variants, which ran into lots of > > problems. The whole thing is annoyingly tricky to deal with, and the > > solutions don't appear to be simple. :( > > We should mostly get out of the business of the perl p5 ports (or as much as > possible). > > - offer one perl5 (the most recent stable release, currently 5.18.2) > - make a glue layer that lets ports depend on modules, but has something like > a custom cpanm actually do the install > - maybe also have some 'rebuild all modules' magic that we can have the perl5 > do when it gets upgraded > > ... but so far, not many other people agree with me on this ;-) > > I can think of problems with that proposal. There aren't any good solutions, > sadly.
problems that are worse than the current situation? care to elaborate on your specific concerns? (I realize that getting the glue + magic right may be difficult, but the reality is that there aren't enough maintainers who want to actively maintain the p5 ports that we have, let alone the other cpan-listed modules that we don't have...) I'm certainly personally guilty of not really spending time making sure my p5- ports are up to date ... -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
