changing default perl

[Daniel J. Luke]

I would say we should even go further, and get rid of all of the p5-* ports.

Instead, we should install perl5 as the latest stable perl, and include our own 'cpanm' program (like how perlbrew has it's own) which would download/build/(test)/install modules (probably into a DESTROOT to allow MacPorts to do the actual install and to take advantage of Macports being able to do unininstall). We could add a new dependency type (and associated functionality) to allow ports to still depend on perl modules, and the perl5 port could uninstall/reinstall all of the installed perl modules when upgraded (or actually, on post-activate). 

Of course, that's considerably more work (and requires changes to base/ that others may or may not be willing to accept into base/).

We should at least just switch to one stable perl5, though.

On Nov 4, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Mark Anderson <emer at emer.net> wrote:
> I'm with you there. 5.8 and 5.10 are long out of support. The Perl community also strongly advises moving to the latest version as soon as it is marked stable, that's why they make you do things like: use 5.018; to get new features that can break old ones. Which is why I'm leaning more and more toward nuking all but the latest perl and away from port select.

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