remove p5-math-bigint port?

Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Mon Feb 26 13:34:02 PST 2007


On 2007-02-26 13:25:40 -0500, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
> >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.
> 
> What about when the module author changes the API?

There could be a rule for such ports: accept bug fixes only.
I suppose that if the module author changes the API, it would
clearly be announced, in particular for a core module.

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