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

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On May 15, 2012, at 7:12 p.m., Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:

> One idea might be to first of all transition Perl to using the select
> system. I can see some point in the future where we might want to keep
> at least two version of Perl that can live on the system and work
> independently of each other : as I understand it, Perl6 is a major
> revision that breaks significantly with Perl5


Isn't the big issue that most subports for Perl modules basically can't be installed at the same time? (That is, most p5.XX subports conflict with p5.XY subports.) This wouldn't fix that problem.

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