change perl5 from perl5.24 to perl5.26?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 31 October 2017 at 21:50, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2017, at 15:41, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
> If you want to be able to run perl version 5.26 by just running "perl", file a ticket in the issue tracker and request the addition of a +perl5_26 variant to the perl5 port. As I said, I don't know why this has not already been done.

Probably because nobody though of doing that (I certainly forgot).

See:
- https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/983
- https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55208

>> (I know that for things like PHP, I can use “sudo port select …”.)
>
> Yes. The saga of the perl ports and "sudo port select" is here:
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29763

I think by far the best thing to do would be to remove "port select
perl" altogether.

Mojca