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

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-5-16 11:46 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On May 15, 2012, at 9:01 p.m., Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> 
>> So - my question still stands : are you interested in me doing the basic
>> hard work in making ports that are hardcoded to a specific Perl5 version
>> independent of which version is installed or the major one ???
> 
> 
> Wasn't this the way things were before? That is, ports were (more or less) okay with whatever version of Perl happened to be installed. It seems that we've moved away from that to the current system of being dependent on specific versions.
> 
> Why did that move happen? This was before my time on MacPorts, so I'm having a hard time finding any relevant mailing list threads.

It never really worked. See countless tickets where someone built p5-foo
for perl5.8 and then upgraded to perl5.12, then some other port that
uses p5-foo failed to build.

- Josh