On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> If we aren't quite ready to tackle "one perl" yet, we could still improve the > situation slightly by removing all p5.8 and p5.10 modules. We wouldn't have > to bother fixing some perl 5.8- and 5.10-specific issues, and it would be > fewer subports for maintainers to test and for buildslaves to build. > > Check my work, but it looks like there aren't any ports that depend on p5.8 > or p5.10 versions of modules (other than other p5.8 and p5.10 modules of > course): > > $ port echo depends:p5.8 and not name:^p5.8 > $ port echo depends:p5.10 and not name:^p5.10 > $ > > The question is how should we go about that. It would be straightforward to > just remove 5.8 and 5.10 everywhere it is found in a perl5.branches line, but > if any users still have those old modules installed, they would never receive > notification that they should upgrade to newer perl versions to continue to > receive updates. This is the de facto solution we are using for python > modules as well. It might be cleaner to use the replaced_by mechanism to > replace these older modules with newer counterparts, but that would be more > work. Thoughts on whether that's necessary? > > > Later we could remove perl5.8 and perl5.10, though at present some ports > still depend on them: > > $ port echo depends:perl5.8 and not name:^p5.8 > subversion-perlbindings-5.8 > rpm > rpm45 > rpm50 > rpm51 > rpm52 > rpm53 > $ port echo depends:perl5.10 and not name:^p5.10 > subversion-perlbindings-5.10 > $ I totally agree that we should remove perl 5.8 and 5.10 as soon as reasonably possible. The rpm53 port already has a perl5_12 variant that can be used. These ports appear very out of date and I doubt anyone uses them. rpm53 also depends on python25! I believe all the RPM ports below rpm53 should be removed. We could ping the maintainers (CC’ed to this email). Anders, n3npq: Any thoughts on this? Cheers! Frank _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
