perl5.8 vs perl5.9 discrepancy

[Anders F Björklund]

John Lauck wrote:

> While I was debugging a perl script and installing various cpan 
> modules I noticed I had both perl5.8 and 5.9 installed.  Both were 
> marked as active but perl5.8 was linked to /opt/local/bin/perl.  I 
> decided to deactivate perl5.8 , deactivate perl5.9 and then reactivate 
> perl5.9.  After doing so the /opt/local/bin/perl link is gone so it 
> doesn't link to to perl5.9 (as I would expect). 
>
> Is this a bug?

It's a feature, Perl 5.9 is a "development" release...

Maybe the port should have been called "perl5.9-devel"
instead, to make this more self-explanatory perhaps ?

--anders