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

[David Evans]

On 8/12/14 8:23 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 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.
>
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Agreed.  If the effort is trivial it doesn't make much difference.  But
if we want to drop some branches then why bother with them?  For
instance, IMO we could drop 5.8 and 5.10.  And 5.12 as soon as the
remaining ports that depend on it are fixed.  Then 5.14.  I don't think
we can get rid of 5.16 until either 5.18 5.20 or both have the same
coverage and we're ready to switch to a new default.

But again this depends on where we are going? 

Ryan, as a member of the executive branch ;-), do you have a method to
come up with a final decision on the direction for perl?  I think it's
all been discussed more than enough.

Dave