[enhancement] proposal - make all ports independent of which version of Perl is installed or the major one

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On May 15, 2012, at 6:35 p.m., Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:

> Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> On May 15, 2012, at 6:09 PM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
>>> ports can be made independent of which version of Perl is installed or
>>> the major one by
>> 
>> 
>> In my opinion, we would be better served by just choosing one version of perl (which would be 5.14 right now) as our 'perl', and possibly offering older versions as options (although I don't think it's really necessary).
> 
> That doesn't fix the problem with the hardcoding of p5.12 and perl5.12
> 
> We would still have to go through all ports and replace instances of
> 	p5.12    -> p5.14
> 	perl5.12 -> perl5.14
> 
> And what happens when we get to Perl6 ??? or Perl 5.16 , 5.18 ...


The idea would be that we'd only have one "perl" port. All modules requiring Perl would have a dependency on that single port.

vq