Upgrading perl from 5.12 to 5.16?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 28, 2013, at 17:58, Frank Schima wrote:

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

Seems like a lot of work. What's the benefit? It works the way it is now. The only "problem" is it forces users to install perl5.12 even if they want another version. But nothing prevents them from *also* installing the version they want.