change perl5 from perl5.24 to perl5.26?

[Murray Eisenberg]

> On 31 Oct2017, at 4:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Oct 31, 2017, at 10:42, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> 
>> How do I change perl5 so as to use perl5.26 rather than perl5.24?
>> 
>> I find:
>> 
>>    [me]$ sudo port installed |grep perl5
>>    ...
>>    perl5 @5.24.2_0+perl5_24 (active)
>>    perl5.24 @5.24.2_0 (active)
>>    perl5.26 @5.26.0_2 (active)
>> 
>> I tried:
>> 
>>   [me]$ sudo port install perl5 -perl5.24 +perl5.26
> 
> Not possible because perl5 does not have a perl5.26 variant yet.
> 
> $ port variants perl5
> perl5 has the variants:
> [+]perl5_24: Use MacPorts perl5.24
> 
> I don't know if that's because nobody got around to it yet or if there's some problem with it.
> 


But:

   [me]$ sudo port info perl5

    perl5 @5.24.2 (lang)
    Sub-ports:            perl5.16, perl5.18, perl5.20, perl5.22, perl5.24, perl5.26
    Variants:             [+]perl5_24

(And of course the perl5.26 port exists.)

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