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

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
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>> On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>>>> 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?
>> 
>> why handle any of them?
>> 
>> maybe just spend the time fixing any ports that don't build with perl 5.20?
> 
> Yes, we will. Mojca has asked us to stop other changes to p5 ports until she is done with this current task.

I'm just saying, it's a /lot/ of effort to do this for p5.8-p5.20 ports when it could be reduced (somewhat) by just working on p5.20... (and deprecating/removing everything else).

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