[MacPorts] #34570: perl5.16 - new port

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-5-24 10:14 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> It seems weird to me that a change in the portgroup should be allowed to create new subports in ports that have not themselves been modified to indicate that that's ok. It seems to me that instead each p5 port should be specifying which perl versions it's compatible with. Thus, when a new version of perl is released, each p5 port would be modified to indicate its compatibility with that new version, thus getting that port's new p5.16 subport into the index at that time. That's at least the approach I'm taking in the new unified php ports.

Yes, perl5.branches should be specified in each portfile, especially
since there are probably modules that don't work with all the perl versions.

- Josh