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

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On May 25, 2012, at 11:02 a.m., Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> https://trac.macports.org/attachment/ticket/34617/patch-perl5.xx.diff
> 
> The patch looks reasonable to me. I look forward to hearing what others think.

As has been pointed out several times already, using ${perl5.major} in these ports makes their builds unrepeatable.

vq


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org>
> Subject: Re: [enhancement] proposal - make all ports independent of which version of Perl is installed or the major one
> Date: May 18, 2012 4:58:39 a.m. EDT
> To: MacPorts Development <macports-dev at lists.macosforge.org>
> 
> On 2012-5-18 08:30 , Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
>> 1) We still need a policy decision as to whether is should be hardcoded
>>   as now -or- we'll use my proposal that I consider more fully
>>   developed regarding future releases of Perl
> 
> There can be a choice about which version of perl to use, it just needs
> to be done via variants.