Re: Perl 6
On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:52 AM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: > Will this work with perl_select…? My installation of perl_select has been a > bit flaky. As far as I know, MacPorts does not contain anything called "perl_select". We have "port select", but it does not handle perl; adding this feature is difficult. See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29763 > I have perl5.22, 5.16 and 5.18 installed but I had to install a specific > variant of perl5 to get it to work with all those different perls. That is the currently correct method for selecting the desired perl version that should be symlinked at /opt/local/bin/perl and /opt/local/bin/perl5. ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
Re: Perl 6
On Jan 5, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> As far as I know, MacPorts does not contain anything called "perl_select". > > There is, actually, but it's a stub that doesn't do anything as yet (or > probably ever since it was subsequently decided to just move to a single Perl > release). Ok, granted, there is a perl_select port, but there is no perl_select program. ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
Re: Perl 6
On 5 January 2016 at 12:52, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: > Will this work with perl_select…? No. Or at least not yet. Perl 6 is not even remotely compatible with Perl 5, so there is no way to switch between the two versions of Perl to run the same script. In the future it might be possible to provide multiple versions of Perl 6 and switch between those (I'm not sure if we want that, but who knows). We could talk about improvements of port select for perl 5, but perl 6 is still relatively far from that. > My installation of perl_select has been a bit flaky. I have perl5.22, 5.16 > and 5.18 installed but I had to install a specific variant of perl5 to get it > to work with all those different perls. You could file individual bug reports on Trac in cases when calling perl5.18 doesn't do the job for you for example, even though "port select" is not quite ready yet and we might use a different approach completely. I'm not sure if implementing port select for perl is even feasible. Mojca ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
Perl 6
This is just to let you know that we now have Perl 6 in MacPorts. We don't ship any modules (modules are installed to ~/.perl6 with 'panda' – the equivalent of cpan). You can install it with sudo port install rakudo panda and install modules with panda install Task::Star Feedback and (upstream) bug reports welcome. This is the initial packaging and a relatively fresh public release of rakudo perl, so problems are not unexpected. Mojca ___ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
