[116085] trunk/dports/science/demeter/Portfile

[Frank Schima]

On Jan 17, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 17, 2014, at 16:49, macsforever2000 at macports.org wrote:
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>> Revision
>> 116085
>> Author
>> macsforever2000 at macports.org
>> Date
>> 2014-01-17 14:49:13 -0800 (Fri, 17 Jan 2014)
>> Log Message
>> 
>> demeter: Require perl 5.16. symlink main binaries into path.
>> Modified Paths
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>> 	• trunk/dports/science/demeter/Portfile
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>> +require_active_variants \
>> +                    perl5 perl5_16
> 
> Shouldn’t you depend on perl5.16 instead of perl5 and ensure you’re using /opt/local/bin/perl5.16 instead of /opt/local/bin/perl? The symlinks installed by the perl5 port, like the symlinks installed by “port select”, are ideally intended for the user’s convenience, not something other ports should rely upon.

Thanks for the feedback. Any p5.16-* dependency will already add perl-5.16. I just felt it was confusing for new Macports users installing this port to also get perl5.12 installed. I suppose this is part of the problem of the Macports perl default version being only 5.12 and needing to be updated to a more modern version. 

I know we’ve had perl discussions before and it ultimately did not get changed so far. I think we should simply update the default perl - in the perl5 port at least - to 5.16. When more perl 5.18 subports are added, we can move up to that. I think the big stumbling block is the desire to change all perl ports to the new default immediately. I don’t have the time right now to be that thorough. And no one in particular is attending to all of the perl ports. 


Cheers!
-Frank