On Feb 23, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > On Feb 21 11:05:23, [email protected] wrote: >> On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Bruce Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >>> With MacPort's perl 5.12, the executable is installed in >>> /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin >>> which is *NOT* where people expect to find programs. >>> And it's NOT a directory people want to maintain in >>> their $PATH. >> >> why? Why would people care whether they have /opt/local/bin or >> /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin or /my/nonstandard/macports/prefix/bin >> in their $PATH? > > People will care that they > (1) have to tweak their PATH at all > (2) have to pollute with /opt/local/libexec/version-du-jour-123 > and keep an eye on what the exact verion is this week. > >>> The reason for the configuration change >>> is to achieve the noble goal of being able >>> to install multiple versions of Perl, and >>> multiple versions of software running under >>> those Perls. > > Please excuse my Perl ignorance - what would be > a realistic scenario for having multiple versions > of Perl installed, and multiple version of Perl > software on top of those?
I believe there are cases where ports depend on perl modules that are only compatible with specific perl versions. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
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