On 31 October 2017 at 21:50, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Oct 31, 2017, at 15:41, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > > If you want to be able to run perl version 5.26 by just running "perl", file > a ticket in the issue tracker and request the addition of a +perl5_26 variant > to the perl5 port. As I said, I don't know why this has not already been done.
Probably because nobody though of doing that (I certainly forgot). See: - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/983 - https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55208 >> (I know that for things like PHP, I can use “sudo port select …”.) > > Yes. The saga of the perl ports and "sudo port select" is here: > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29763 I think by far the best thing to do would be to remove "port select perl" altogether. Mojca
