On 15/6/2026 16:41, Vincent Habchi wrote:
Folks,
I have a bunch of commits waiting since ages for the p5- series of perl
modules. It’s mainly a batch modification to allow for more recent perl
versions. Example:
Pro > git diff --staged perl/p5-test-notabs/Portfile
diff --git a/perl/p5-test-notabs/Portfile b/perl/p5-test-notabs/Portfile
index 37f02d267ca..ea6fd23b5a9 100644
--- a/perl/p5-test-notabs/Portfile
+++ b/perl/p5-test-notabs/Portfile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
PortSystem 1.0
PortGroup perl5 1.0
-perl5.branches 5.28 5.30 5.32 5.34
+perl5.branches 5.28 5.30 5.32 5.34 5.36 5.38 5.40
perl5.setup Test-NoTabs 2.02
license {Artistic-1 GPL}
maintainers nomaintainer
I also have a Portfile for the new Kicad 10.0 series waiting, but I’d like to
fix the perl ports before that.
Can I commit those?
Moving to newer perl is certainly overdue. I don't remember if there is
a Trac ticket for that. Adding new branches is good but the old ones
should also be removed, since 5.38 and older are now EOL.
In the past, updates to perl5.branches were done en masse, but that of
course triggered a very large number of builds. Doing it piecemeal is
probably better, but it does mean having to do it in the right order,
adding dependencies no later than their dependents and removing
dependents no later than their dependencies.
So please do feel free to add newer perl5.branches and remove old ones
within the above constraints. There has also been talk of only having
one version of perl for all modules, which I'm fine with in principle if
things keep working, but it may be a big project.
- Josh
