remove p5-math-bigint port?

Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Mon Feb 26 07:34:36 PST 2007


On 2007-02-26 10:08:34 -0500, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> perl5.8.8 comes with CORE modules in its distfile.
> 
> The options (as I see them) are:
> - Leave things as they are, which is a little bit confusing, but  
> matches 'normal' perl behavior.
> - Have perl ports that upgrade CORE modules overwrite files from the  
> perl5.8 port (to mimic how people normally upgrade CORE modules).  
> This obviously has some issues.
> - Change the @INC ordering to something non-standard (ie. User,  
> Vendor, CORE instead of CORE, User, Vendor). Deal with the  
> compatibility issues that may or may not result.
> - Get an upstream perl change (in @INC or something else) to make the  
> behavior match your expectation.

Something should be done on the MacPorts side so that
  1. the user isn't confused,
  2. he knows what to do to load the module provided by a port.

There should be at least some information in the long description.

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