Switching to Perl 5.16

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at apple.com
Thu Jul 4 23:57:07 PDT 2013


TBH, I’d rather switch to 5.16 while 5.18 matures in MacPorts ...

So is anyone against moving from 5.12 to 5.16 as the default?  Should we make changes to all the relevant ports at once?

On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> On Jun 19, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Frank Schima <macsforever2000 at macports.org> wrote:
>> On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
>>> On Jun 19, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Frank Schima <macsforever2000 at macports.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> It seems to me that we should be switching the default perl in Macports from version 5.12 to 5.16. Are there any objections to this? If not, I will create a Trac ticket about this.
>>> 
>>> do you mean 5.18, or are we desiring to continue to be behind the current stable perl for some reason? ;-)
>> 
>> If you think that version is stable enough to move forward on. I'm hoping ricci will comment. One problem is that we lack a perl5.18 port. It will require more work to add it too because now all p5-* ports will need to add a p5.18 subport. A ticket for that seems like a no brainer at this point however. 
> 
> 
> I've said before that we should take upstream's recommendation (like we do with other ports) and use the latest stable (release) version.
> 
> Perl.org says: "We recommend that you always run the latest stable version, currently 5.18.0."
> 
> we should have a /good/ reason for not following that recommendation.
> 
> (Of course, I also think that we go to too much effort to support multiple perl versions...)
> 
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