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

[David Evans]

On 8/12/14 8:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Because we want them to go away? Or is the effort to do them all
relatively trivial?