remove p5-math-bigint port?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Feb 24, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> It is version 1.77. The version provided by the p5-math-bigint port
> is 1.73 only. Is there a reason to keep such a port that is not
> up-to-date and that will never be used because perl first selects
> the modules distributed with the perl5 port?

A module can explicitly load the non-core module.

> BTW, the latest version of Math::BigInt on CPAN is 1.79.

There probably isn't a reason to have the older one in the tree (but  
there could be a reason to have the newer one available).

> Shouldn't
> perl5 be upgraded?

I'm not sure what you mean, there's no perl5 port. The perl5.8 port  
is for the latest stable perl release 5.8.8.

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