Messed up Perl

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:43 PM, kevin beckford wrote:
> 
>> I'm under the impression that what Hal was asking for was a
>> "perl_select" command like python and gcc has.
>> Anyway by now he has already solved his issues with perl executables.
> 
> This is an excellent thing to discuss, since contrib has the *select
> code already.  What's involved in going all the way?

perl is different from python/ruby in that we don't have p58-foo p59-foo p510-foo (etc.) ports.

We should really just install the latest release version (currently 5.12.2) [and maybe revbump all of the p5 ports when we do a version upgrade that would require rebuilding all of the modules].

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