Switching to Perl 5.20 as the default Perl version

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hi,

Once again ... are there any objections against switching to Perl 5.20
by default?

I don't have enough experience yet to do it all by myself, I'm also
not sure that I wouldn't miss some critical patches that need to be
applied all at the same time to prevent breaking things, so I would
really appreciate if other developers with more experience would come
up and start replacing 5.16 with 5.20 at all the critical places.

I really think that we should start moving forward. Nearly all the
perl modules should work with 5.20 (exceptions are negligible and
mostly somewhat broken anyway).

Mojca

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe that we are ready to make the transition to 5.20 as the
> default version of Perl in MacPorts.
>
> There is a small number of ports that still lack support for 5.20. But
> that's about 1-2% of all ports only, and many of them are lacking
> support just because they are broken under 5.16 anyway, or because it
> would be nice to update the version first and that introduces extra
> dependencies and extra work etc. We can always just add 5.18/5.20 to
> the list of subports even for those semi-broken ports.
>
> See http://trac.macports.org/ticket/46005 for details.
>
> This is how we made the recent transition of switching ports from 5.12 to 5.16:
>     http://trac.macports.org/ticket/44405
> which took about 5 months for all the maintainers (not) to respond.
>
> Thanks to a patch by Bradley (pixilla) it also became easy to add
> perl5_xy variants to ports in order to support multiple Perl versions,
> see details in the following ticket for example:
>     http://trac.macports.org/ticket/46570
>
> Does anyone volunteer to start the transition to 5.20 and open a
> ticket similar to #44405 to switch from 5.16 to 5.20?
>
> Mojca