Broken perl configuration

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Feb 23, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Jan Stary wrote:

> On Feb 21 11:05:23, dluke at geeklair.net wrote:
>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Bruce Miller <bruce.miller at nist.gov> wrote:
>>> With MacPort's perl 5.12, the executable is installed in
>>> /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin
>>> which is *NOT* where people expect to find programs.
>>> And it's NOT a directory people want to maintain in
>>> their $PATH.
>> 
>> why? Why would people care whether they have /opt/local/bin or /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin or /my/nonstandard/macports/prefix/bin in their $PATH?
> 
> People will care that they
> (1) have to tweak their PATH at all
> (2) have to pollute with /opt/local/libexec/version-du-jour-123
> and keep an eye on what the exact verion is this week.
> 
>>> The reason for the configuration change
>>> is to achieve the noble goal of being able
>>> to install multiple versions of Perl, and
>>> multiple versions of software running under
>>> those Perls.  
> 
> Please excuse my Perl ignorance - what would be
> a realistic scenario for having multiple versions
> of Perl installed, and multiple version of Perl
> software on top of those?

I believe there are cases where ports depend on perl modules that are only compatible with specific perl versions.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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