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

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On May 24, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:

> Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> 
>> Working in a svn tree is definitely the easiest way for you to collaborate with your fellow MacPorts contributers.
>> 
>> If you were to run your script in a svn checkout of trunk/dports you would be able to provide the desired diff with "cd dports && svn diff > patch-perl5.16.diff".
>> 
>> If you add the file:///trunk/dports tree to sources.conf you can hack and build to suit your own needs and "port sync" or "cd dports && svn up" will pull in changes leaving you to decide how to handle conflicts.
> 
> OK ... I'll give it a try :-)
> I haven't got that much experience with svn, git, hg
> beyound the basics.
> 
> Actually, what the two of us did with your hg is the most advanced I've
> ever worked with version control !!! :-O

You will pick this up in no time :)

> Now, when I've got that file, how / where do you want it ???

Create a MacPorts trac ticket with a nice subject and attach your file to the ticket.
I'll watch for the ticket. You can add me "pixilla at macports.org" to the tickets cc field if you like.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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