[107528] trunk/dports/textproc/intltool/Portfile

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Mon Jul 8 11:28:49 PDT 2013


On Jul 2, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Dan Ports <dports at macports.org> wrote:
> This seems like yet another instance of the current perl situation
> making it harder to maintain other ports.

yep

> Are we really getting enough benefit out of supporting multiple perl
> versions to make this worthwhile?


nope

On Jul 4, 2013, at 4:30 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> Or if the relevant maintainers want to remove the old perl versions or
> just have one version, that's fine with me. 

this

I've been saying for a while that we should just have one perl5 port (that has the latest stable perl5), and set all p5-xx ports to use this perl.

If people want, older perl5.X.Y ports could exist (but I'm not sure there's any need for them).

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