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

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Eric Hall wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2012-May/019336.html
>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2012-May/019338.html
>>
>> It's now been almost a week with no activity in this thread
>> and no resolution in sight as to what we do as a group.
>>
>> Presently, Perl 5.16.0 has just been released, and the maintainer of the
>> main perl ports hasn't reacted at all in this thread.
> 
> 	I have, though perhaps not in the way you'd like
> (I'm rather short on cycles these days).

If you are the maintainer, then I'm sorry for the critisism, but the
email address you are using here isn't the one present in the port-files

> 
> 	Overall I think it's *far* better to be able to have
> multiple versions of perl installed at once.  There are some
> challenges to that, and I readily admit I don't have the time
> to focus on them right now.
> 
>>
>> I've done the preliminary work in bringing Perl 5.16 into MacPorts in
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34570
>> Presently, I can't get my perl5.16 port to generate the sub-ports ... I
>> simply don't know enough to see what's wrong with my approach, but my
>> present assumption is that it's because I'm copying my modified
>> _resources/port1.0/group/perl5-1.0.tcl file into place instead of
>> getting it from a repo.
>>
>> Now, we do have 96 ports that have perl5.12 hardcoded into them.
>> That means, that they are presently 2 (two) years behind schedule as I
>> see it.
>>
>> If we don't come to a resolution as a group, I'll just implement my own
>> solution and post my procedure here on the lists for other interested
>> parties should they be interested.
>>
> 
> 	I don't see a problem with providing a variable that can be
> set somewhere that will make bumping the perl revs easier.  It's
> certainly been a pain while trying to test things for perl5.14 to
> have to go in and edit port files to avoid installing perl5.12.

OK ... I'll post a way to mass-migrate all 96 ports in one go then ...

> 
> 		-eric

:-)
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