On Jul 22, 2014, at 3:25 PM, David Evans <dev...@macports.org> wrote:
> On 7/22/14 1:01 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >>> I think it is way too early to be switching to it by default. Much less the >>> only option. So I vote we at least keep perl 5.16 and perl 5.18 and all of >>> their modules around for a while. >> only perl5.18 currently has a maintainer in MacPorts. >> >> upstream has perl5.18 in maintenance mode, and recommends installing >> perl5.20 (previous perl5.x versions are all End of life). > We have two topics going here: > > 1) trimming old/outdated/unsupported perl ports > 2) what to do about Mojca's commit that broke perl5.20 builds > > I suggest we do the following: > > * agree on which old perl5 ports can be dispensed with. Looks like we > can agree at this point on removing anything older than perl5.16 as a > starting point. I tend to support inclusion of perl5.16 for now because > it is the only recent version that has good port coverage. (Of a total > of 1045 ports, 1042 support perl5.16, 137 perl5.18, 10 perl5.20). This > amounts to current version, last version and most recent EOL version. > > * revert as soon as possible Mojca's recent commit that broke perl5.20 > builds until the there has been more discussion and the > details/consequences worked out. This is no comment about the merit of > his suggestion, just that it breaks things. If he would set up a > separate test branch, I would be happy to help test. This would allow > progress on adding perl5.20 ports. > > * work toward filling out perl5.18 and perl5.20 ports with the goal of > moving to a more recent default version as soon as coverage permits. If > you're going to add a perl5.18 subport, add the perl5.20 as well so it > doesn't have to be done twice. > > Just some broad strokes but it would be nice to come to an agreement > that would allow us to move forward. Comments? I completely agree with this approach. I have a bunch of p5 port changes ready to commit, but I wanted to test the p5.20 versions first to see if they at least build. We still have a number of ports that require perl 5.12 right now however. So we may not be able to remove that yet. I will try to file a ticket about this soon if one has not been created (I forget at this point). BTW, Mojca is a “she”. :) Cheers! Frank _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
