On 12/12/14 11:12 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:38 PM, David Evans wrote:
On 12/12/14 11:54 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Dec 12, 2014, at 8:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: tcl; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil;
c-basic-offset: 4 -*- vim:fenc=utf-8:ft=tcl:et:sw=4:ts=4:sts=4
# $Id$
+# Port is broken:
+# - http://trac.macports.org/ticket/33479
+
PortSystem 1.0
PortGroup perl5 1.0
-perl5.branches 5.10 5.12 5.14 5.16
+perl5.branches 5.10 5.12 5.14 5.16 5.18 5.20
I don't understand this change. If we're adding perl branches without
testing that they work, then let's just do that for all the remaining perl
module ports all at once, as was suggested in months past. I had wanted to
avoid that, because I like our standing policy of verifying that a port
builds before committing a change. If we're not going to do that here, then
there's no reason to do each port separately.
I agree with Ryan. While it would be easy to do a bulk change on the
remaining ports that do not support 5.18 5.20, if a known issue exists with
a particular port then it should be fixed before making the update.
I'm sorry for this change, but I have another question.
Assuming that all the working ports have been taken care of: what
would you do with completely broken ports (that is: ports where
p5.16-foo is just as broken as p5.20-foo)? Obviously we are not
removing the existing broken variants. (I removed broken variants
5.8-5.14 in p5-wx for example, but there 5.16 worked just fine.)
Mojca
If a port is completely broken and it's agreed that there is no hope of
fixing it, I would vote to remove it.
p5-cgi-speedycgi may be such a port as it really does appear to be
completely broken and has not been updated since 2003. Ignoring the
fact that CGI in general is a bit outdated, there are other, perhaps
better, ways to accomplish similar goals (e.g. mod_fcgid, mod_fastcgi,
mod_perl2).
Dave
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