<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Oct2017, at 4:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On Oct 31, 2017, at 10:42, Murray Eisenberg wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">How do I change perl5 so as to use perl5.26 rather than perl5.24?<br class=""><br class="">I find:<br class=""><br class="">    [me]$ sudo port installed |grep perl5<br class="">    ...<br class="">    perl5 @5.24.2_0+perl5_24 (active)<br class="">    perl5.24 @5.24.2_0 (active)<br class="">    perl5.26 @5.26.0_2 (active)<br class=""><br class="">I tried:<br class=""><br class="">   [me]$ sudo port install perl5 -perl5.24 +perl5.26<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Not possible because perl5 does not have a perl5.26 variant yet.<br class=""><br class="">$ port variants perl5<br class="">perl5 has the variants:<br class="">[+]perl5_24: Use MacPorts perl5.24<br class=""><br class="">I don't know if that's because nobody got around to it yet or if there's some problem with it.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>But:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">   [me<span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">]$ sudo port info perl5</span></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">    perl5 @5.24.2 (lang)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">    Sub-ports:            perl5.16, perl5.18, perl5.20, perl5.22, perl5.24, perl5.26</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">    Variants:             [+]perl5_24</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">(And of course the perl5.26 port exists.)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">                       </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">     </span>Home (240)-246-7240<br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">  </span>Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class=""><br class="">

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