perl migration to version 5.34 (was: Re: Help offered)

[Giuseppe 'ferdy' Miceli]

	ciao mojca,

just to kick it off, i started migration all my installed port depending from perl to perl5.34.

now i have some ten portfiles updated to 5.34 and some 230 perl modules with perl.branch including 5.34.

i could create one PR for the ten ports, but i am quite puzzled by the idea to create more than two hundred PR for the perl modules. 

how am i supposed to move forward?

any help would be appreciated! 
—
ferdy


> On 8 Sep 2021, at 08:29, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Giuseppe & Michele,
> 
> On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 12:02, Giuseppe 'ferdy' Miceli wrote:
>> 
>> I can work on the migration from perl 5.28 to 5.34.
>> 
>> should michele fancy to start working on macports with this tasks, i can volunteer to do it together with him so i can support him in these first steps!
>> 
>> please be aware i am not a guru at all, but i can surely give michele an hand as general overview of the project and basic tasks (e.g. working with macports git)
> 
> On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 18:00, Michele Venturi wrote:
>> 
>> I like shell scripting, it looks like a good first task.
> 
> Thanks a lot for the offer!
> 
> We need to get this merged first (it should basically be ready, but I
> want confirmation from Ken and Ryan):
>   https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/11534
> before other changes can start flowing in, but in principle you can
> already start working/testing from that branch.
> 
> I need to make a Trac ticket for transition to 5.34 (not a dependency
> for your work either), see
>   https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58361
> 
> All ports that depend on 5.28 (some on 5.30 or 5.32 by now?) need to
> start pointing to 5.34, and revision needs to be increased for all
> those ports. Some ports depend on each other (notably some Apache
> stuff, I forgot what exactly) and they need to be changed at the same
> time (that is: not one port today and one after a few months; a few
> commits apart is fine).
> 
> Changing some of the ports in various ways to make them more
> consistent with each other and easier for scripting the changes later
> is valid (ideally that should be done in a separate commit).
> 
> We have a command that lists all the ports depending on a particular
> perl version. See the above ticket for an example. That's the list of
> ports you could start with.
> 
> If anyone will work on a slightly more serious scripting that would be
> usable in the long term, I would slightly prefer to see it done in
> Python than Perl (Tcl would also be valid if that would help you
> interact directly with MacPorts).
> 
> Thank you,
>   Mojca