perl (again)

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jun 10, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> I would be really grateful if someone would be
> willing to look into the above mentioned ticket. We would need a
> slight modification of the configure/build scripts. 

That change seems reasonable to me, but it would be worthwhile to look at what other packaging systems do (and/or to follow ryan's advice and talk to the perl devs about it)

> Other questions are still open. (One of the "complaints" about the
> current situation [ignoring the situation itself] is that if I go
> ahead and start modifying maintained p5-foo ports, maintainers will
> start complaining.

I don't see that as a 'problem' (more works as intended) - you shouldn't make changes to a port someone else maintains without communicating with them (unless the port is 'broken').

> And if I submit tickets, maintainers will do
> nothing; by the time the tickets go into timeout mode, I might no
> longer remember the order of how the ports need to be committed and I
> might no longer have time and/or motivation to actually commit all
> those changes.)

we probably want to go through the process once, though - either we get the maintainers to update their ports, add openmaintainer, or we follow the port abandonment procedure and get the port updated to nomaintainer.

If we could reasonably simply things back to one supported perl version, one set of p5 ports that works with that supported version - it would at least lower the amount of effort involved by all parties (and then we can try to focus on actual interesting problems instead? maybe eventually get some level 'automatic' support of modules from CPAN without having to write/update portfiles for each module when most of them will 'just work'?)

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