Perl 5.18

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Sep 23 15:45:47 PDT 2013


On Sep 23, 2013, at 17:01, Mark Anderson wrote:

> Here is my more important question: What other things need to be done to bring up a new perl? I know perl5 needs to be modified, but there have to be other things like Portgroups or something.

Any perl module ports that want to offer perl 5.18 subports need to so indicate in their perl5.branches line. This cannot be done in a portgroup; it must be done individually in every port, because every port must take individual responsibility for being perl 5.18 compatible. 


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