Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Now about 5.8-5.16: my idea was to initially set the INC path for
> those versions in such a way that it would include
> "5.16.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.16.3
> 5.16.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.16.1
> 5.16.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.16.0" as well as the "plain"
> <something>/5.16/<something> without the subrelease. That means that
> there would initially be no urgent need to revbump all the > 1000
> ports. (On the contrary 5.20 doesn't need any change and for 5.18 I
> would make sure to revbump all p5.18-foo ports.)
> 
> But I'm unable to figure out how to patch Perl to do that. The INC
> path additions seem to be ignored.

Why handle <= 5.16 differently than >= 5.18?