On Sep 16, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>
>> I would suggest that we just remove all of the p5-xx ports.
>
> Why? Because one of the features we have advertised to users, and which they
> rely on, is that they can run "sudo port selfupdate" and "port outdated" and
> see which ports are outdated -- which ones have never versions available --
> and run "sudo port upgrade outdated" to receive those updates.
meh
when we move from one default perl5 to a new default perl5, we don't upgrade
people to the new perl...
I see there being a tradeoff here - apparently no one wants to do the work to
make the 'smooth transition' possible (although I haven't looked at it too much
yet, and maybe it's not as hard as it is being made out to be), but the current
situation is a ballooning disaster (we just get more and more perl versions and
more and more p5 port versions).
> If we just remove the p5.XX-YY ports (in other words, if we just remove the
> logic from the perl5 portgroup that causes those subports to be created),
> then users who have any of those subports installed will never know if and
> when they become outdated.
We can put some notes in with instructions (as a minimum). Maybe a transition
script that takes the port obsolete data and uses it to select appropriate
p5-foo ports? Maybe some enhancement to base? Maybe something else.
I think I'll create a branch and start with the basic perl5 changes, and see
how much work it would/will be to do the other stuff (and anyone who is
interested in assisting can also try out ideas).
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Daniel J. Luke
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