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

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM, David Evans <devans at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> 

My assumption was that since a patch is already in place for perl5.20 and perl5.18 it could be backported to earlier versions with minimal effort, and that since Mojca plans a revbump of all perl modules anyway, before that mass revbumping would be the ideal time to do that.