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

[Eric Hall]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:20:31PM +0200, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> > Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> >> I'll have some stat shortly as to how many & which ports we are talking
> >> about.
> > 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > + ports dependent on Perl 5.12
> > +
> > PsyncX                    @2.2.2     aqua
> ...
> > xfwm4                     @4.6.2     xfce
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > number of ports dependent on Perl5.12 : 92
> > 
> 
> Does anybody want to give their thoughts on how we fix this for people
> wanting to upgrade their version of Perl to 5.14 ???
> 
> Of the affected, I can personally see several that in the future will
> affect me as I go about learning & implementing new stuff ???
> 
> I can of course -and will if no general solution is found- implement my
> proposal locally in my patch-repo, but I'ld rather see a solution for
> everybody instead of me just going my own way
> 

	I'd love help making (and testing) the change from to the perl5
port to go from perl5.12 to perl5.14 (as the default).  I've gotten a
bit done, but there's loads more to do.



		-eric