[112798] trunk/dports/archivers/upx/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 1, 2013, at 15:38, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> Or we could stop with the silliness and just have the perl5 port install the current (stable) perl5 (which is 5.18.1 right now). We could simplify the p5-* ports to just work with the current perl5, and IFF there is an actual need for an older perl, we can have a separate port for it...

Yes, we could go back to that again, like we had years ago.

But the idea that we could add a separate port for an older version of perl if it’s needed is not so simple, because perl is not used in a vacuum; it’s used together with an ecosystem of modules. If we go back to a single version of perl, then we go back to a single version of each module, and it would not be so easy for a user to, say, use perl 5.8 with a particular module. But I don’t know if that’s a common need, and I suspect it may not be, given how mature perl is by now.