Suddenly 4000 ports more available

[Anders F Björklund]

Marko Käning wrote:

>> There are about 1,000 perl ports, starting with p5-,
>> that have now been split into p5.8 p5.10 p5.12 p5.14
> OK, I see. It looked like a vast inflation of port numbers… :-)

It is...

In FreeBSD for instance, you have the ports generate
different *packages* for the different versions - but
there is still only one port for each of the py- or p5-.

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/perl5.html
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/python.html

With the MacPorts subports, it looks like several...
Of course, since there is no "default" version it
actually is since it needs to create all 4 of them.

http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=perl
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=python


And I think somebody already mentioned Homebrew, that
doesn't install *any* perl or python packages but defer
to using cpan -i or easy_install for those (to /Library).

The same goes for ruby, and ruby1.8 vs ruby1.9 vs gem:
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ruby.html
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=category&substr=ruby


So yeah, I'd say it's inflated.

--anders