Naive question about perl versions (LaTeXML)

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Bruce Miller <bruce.miller at nist.gov> wrote:

> Is the reason for (1) that 5.16 is currently the "default" perl,
> and the reason for (2) that that user currently has perl 5.12
> installed? (and thus should upgrade to perl 5.16)
>

Roughly yes to both. In the latter case, it is that they have 5.12 as
default (look at the variants of the "perl5" port; while +perl5_16 is
current default, it used to be +perl5_12, and there's no good way to
automatically migrate it to a new default variant), and the message about
deprecated dependencies is somewhat misleading because they should really
be switching the perl5 port variant to a newer one.

Part of the reason for this migration of Perl versions is so we can come up
with a better way to handle future Perl upgrades, btw.

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