remove p5-math-bigint port?

[Blair Zajac]

Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> Something should be done on the MacPorts side so that
>>   1. the user isn't confused,
> 
> The least surprising thing (in my opinion) is to continue to have the 
> macports perl module experience match every other platform.

I disagree, as different builds provide different module experiences. 
More below.

> 
>>   2. he knows what to do to load the module provided by a port.
> 
> I don't feel it's necessary to add tutorials for every port we have in 
> the tree, but I wouldn't be opposed to someone writing something up.
> 
>> There should be at least some information in the long description.

If MacPorts provides a newer version of a module than the base Perl, 
then Perl should pick that one up by default.  I don't like the few 
modules we have that clobber files from other ports, as this is just messy.

Debian and Ubuntu can have local modules in front of the base modules:

$ perl -V
....
....
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
   Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
                         PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
   Locally applied patches:
         SPRINTF0 - fixes for sprintf formatting issues - CVE-2005-3962
   Built under linux
   Compiled at Dec 16 2005 07:48:39
   @INC:
     /etc/perl
     /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7
     /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7
     /usr/lib/perl5
     /usr/share/perl5
     /usr/lib/perl/5.8
     /usr/share/perl/5.8
     /usr/local/lib/site_perl
     .

and Fink sets PERL5LIB to put /sw before the system's perl modules 
(since Fink by default uses /usr/bin/perl and not /sw/bin/perl).

I don't think too many people pay attention to @INC until they need it, 
or they wonder why their newer module is not being picked up.

So I vote to have out Perl have it's @INC reordered to have site_perl 
and vendor_perl first.  I don't think making this change will break many 
things, will it?

Regards,
Blair

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