multiple perl versions

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Feb 15 19:57:53 PST 2012


On 2012-2-16 11:26 , Dan Ports wrote:
> In fact, what we have now may be the worst possible world: we claim to
> support multiple perl versions, and ports have to go to some effort to
> specify which version they depend on, but it doesn't even work -- the
> p5.x- perl module ports conflict with each other!

Certainly not the worst possible. What we had before, when you could
install p5 ports for any perl version but couldn't easily tell which
version they were installed for afterwards, was worse.

- Josh


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