On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:17 PM, "Daniel J. Luke" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> indeed. I don't think a good solution here is to have a 'port select' for >> each and every perl module that might want to install something into >> $prefix/bin, though > > For sure. I think the way Derek envisioned it, p5-foo would just choose its > symlink target dynamically, depending on the active perl5 variant. This > wouldn't be a reproducible setup though, so it's probably a no-go.
Why wouldn't that be reproducible? If you know the active perl5 variant, shouldn't that be enough? > >> (My preferred solution to this, and most of the other perl mess, would be to >> just have one perl version as 'the perl we provide' - but it appears that >> most other people don't agree). > > +1. Then again, I don't use Perl at all :P > > vq > I'm starting to come around to that as well. Perl is mostly good about backwards compatibility, but I have seen some notable exceptions lately, so I understand why others think differently. Anyway, I think it _could_ work, but it sounds like a mess. Probably easier to tell the user to either a) put the libexec/perl5.xy directory in their $PATH, or b) make their own symlinks in ~/bin or aliases in ~/.profile, or c) remember to type foo-5.xy when they want foo. Derek _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
