<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">is there any overall strategy regarding the update of perl and python version as dependencies?
</pre></blockquote><div class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The basic idea was to be rational about things, so that end-users don’t need many different perls and pythons installed just because, for example, someone noticed a new perl came out last Tuesday and so changed their ports to that.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The admins would set the “recommended” perl and python based on updates and software conformance, and all ports would try to use that (unless some given version would be the only version that would work).</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And then, en-masse, at the right moment the “recommended” version would change, all the ports would more-or-less move to the new default at once, if we could.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">How well this is working, whether it is working at all, and how well it is or is not generally supported by the group I could not say.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">But it seemed like a good idea, when for example one needed to build and install two or three perls and two or three pythons just to install git.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Ken</pre></div></body></html>