Upgrading perl from 5.12 to 5.16?

Frank Schima macsforever2000 at macports.org
Tue May 28 15:58:48 PDT 2013


On May 27, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> On May 27, 2013, at 14:11, Johannes Kastl wrote:
> 
>> 3. How to get intltool to use p5.16 instead of 5.12 for its
>> dependencies? Reinstalling gimp2 and inkscape leads to some p5.12-*
>> modules being installed.
> 
> There is intentionally no way for you to do so. Ports like intltool that use specific perl modules must depend on a specific perl version thereof. Currently the default perl in MacPorts is 5.12. I'm sure we'd be willing to entertain the idea of changing what the default perl is, but it should then be done uniformly in all ports.

Can't we have perl variants for ports that use perl like we have python variants for ports that use python?


-Frank

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