Actually, I kinda like that idea. It will be a lot of work, though. But it would keep me from having to mix CPAN and p5-* which I know is not recommended, but I still do.
—Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <[email protected]> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > I would say we should even go further, and get rid of all of the p5-* > ports. > > Instead, we should install perl5 as the latest stable perl, and include > our own 'cpanm' program (like how perlbrew has it's own) which would > download/build/(test)/install modules (probably into a DESTROOT to allow > MacPorts to do the actual install and to take advantage of Macports being > able to do unininstall). We could add a new dependency type (and associated > functionality) to allow ports to still depend on perl modules, and the > perl5 port could uninstall/reinstall all of the installed perl modules when > upgraded (or actually, on post-activate). > > Of course, that's considerably more work (and requires changes to base/ > that others may or may not be willing to accept into base/). > > We should at least just switch to one stable perl5, though. > > On Nov 4, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Mark Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm with you there. 5.8 and 5.10 are long out of support. The Perl > community also strongly advises moving to the latest version as soon as it > is marked stable, that's why they make you do things like: use 5.018; to > get new features that can break old ones. Which is why I'm leaning more and > more toward nuking all but the latest perl and away from port select. > > -- > Daniel J. Luke > +========================================================+ > | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | > | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | > +========================================================+ > | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | > | reflect the opinions of my employer. | > +========================================================+ > > > >
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