Perl 5.8.8 already present on Leopard; can I make a "dummy" Portfile?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Philip K.F. Hölzenspies wrote:
> My point was actually about a Portfile of a very specific version  
> of perl
> (5.8.8),

Macports doesn't do fine grained version control (yet?).

There is no port for perl that is specifically 5.8.8 (there is a  
perl5.8 port that currently happens to be version 5.8.8)

> Absolutely true. However, when Apple shifts broken software, it  
> does so with a
> version of the OS. Tiger contained a funky version of libgmp IIRC,  
> in which
> case the libgmp Portfile for the version installed on Tiger would  
> NOT exempt
> from installing when on a darwin 8 platform.

Yes, macports could work around every possible broken configuration  
in order to do what you're requesting, but most maintainers (who are  
just volunteers) don't have the time to do this.

Additionally, when the systems change (and are suddenly broken in new  
ways in a new version) the macports port won't work under your plan  
unless/until a maintainer updates them. Under the macports strategy  
you need to spend a little extra time compiling stuff, and a little  
extra disk space to hold it, but things are less likely to break  
unexpectedly.

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