[MacPorts] #17803: RFE: upgrade perl5.8 5.8.8 -> 5.8.9

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#17803: RFE: upgrade perl5.8 5.8.8 -> 5.8.9
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  Reporter:  mcalhoun@…             |       Owner:  ricci@…           
      Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  reopened          
  Priority:  Normal                 |   Milestone:  Port Updates      
 Component:  ports                  |     Version:  1.7.0             
Resolution:                         |    Keywords:                    
      Port:  perl5.8                |  
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Changes (by ricci@…):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  fixed =>


Comment:

 Replying to [ticket:17803 mcalhoun@…]:
 > Attached is a proposed update to perl5.8.[[BR]]
 > Most of the patches are no longer needed.
 >
 > After I upgraded,
 > {{{
 > /opt/local/bin/perl -e 'print join "\n", @INC'
 > }}}
 > showed that the 5.8.8 directories were still searched[[BR]]
 > (so no revision increase of the p5-* ports would be needed).[[BR]]
 > Can this be confirmed?


         I just installed perl 5.8.9 via the updated port and checked the
 @INC path (both via "/opt/local/bin/perl -V" and via the above script) and
 it does not pull in the 5.8.8 paths (as expected, its version 5.8.9, not
 version 5.8.8).  Also tested by 'use'ing p5-locale-gettext (which I have
 installed from perl5.8 @5.8.8), perl5.8 @5.8.9 fails to find it (again, as
 expected).  Did your test pick up the (old) perl 5.8.8 instead of perl
 5.8.9?

         The question is how this will impact users - I think if they
 uninstall their perl modules and rebuild them they'll be fine, otherwise
 they'll have ports that are registered as installed but are not available
 to the active perl binary.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17803#comment:2>
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