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

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
> Thank you Bjarne.
> 
> Bjarne, if you were to follow this simple setup you could produce the preferred diff files (svn diff perl > patch-perl-deps-to-perl-5.14.diff) that will allow the widest audience to view, critique and act on your work.

My script already produces diff files ?!?
I've attached some as examples
Do you want the diif files to look different ???

> 
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN
> 
> Regards,
> Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)


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--- /macports/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/aqua/PsyncX/Portfile	2012-04-13 07:30:29.000000000 +0200
+++ Portfile	2012-05-24 17:38:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # $Id: Portfile 91907 2012-04-13 05:25:43Z ryandesign at macports.org $
 
 PortSystem          1.0
+PortGroup			perl5	1.0
 PortGroup           xcode 1.0
 
 name                PsyncX
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
 svn.revision        29
 worksrcdir          trunk
 
-depends_lib         port:p5.12-macosx-file
+depends_lib         port:p${perl5.major}-macosx-file
 
 # p5.12-macosx-file is 32-bit only
 supported_archs     i386 ppc
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--- /macports/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/net/argus-monitor/Portfile	2012-04-07 10:00:32.000000000 +0200
+++ Portfile	2012-05-24 17:49:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # $Id: Portfile 91655 2012-04-07 07:46:17Z jmr at macports.org $
 PortSystem	1.0
+PortGroup			perl5	1.0
 
 name			argus-monitor
 version			3.5
@@ -15,23 +16,23 @@
 distfiles		argus-${version}.tgz
 worksrcdir		argus-${version}
 
-depends_lib		port:perl5.12 \
+depends_lib		port:perl${perl5.major} \
 			port:postfix \
 			port:openssl \
 			port:freetype \
 			port:gd2 \
 			port:fping \
 			port:db44 \
-			port:p5.12-dbi \
-			port:p5.12-berkeleydb \
-			port:p5.12-socket6 \
-			port:p5.12-gd \
-			port:p5.12-time-hires \
-			port:p5.12-net-ssleay \
-			port:p5.12-digest-hmac \
-			port:p5.12-digest-md5 \
-			port:p5.12-digest-sha1 \
-			port:p5.12-crypt-des
+			port:p${perl5.major}-dbi \
+			port:p${perl5.major}-berkeleydb \
+			port:p${perl5.major}-socket6 \
+			port:p${perl5.major}-gd \
+			port:p${perl5.major}-time-hires \
+			port:p${perl5.major}-net-ssleay \
+			port:p${perl5.major}-digest-hmac \
+			port:p${perl5.major}-digest-md5 \
+			port:p${perl5.major}-digest-sha1 \
+			port:p${perl5.major}-crypt-des
 
 patchfiles		patch-Makefile.tplt