change perl5 from perl5.24 to perl5.26?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 31, 2017, at 15:25, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> On 31 Oct2017, at 4:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt 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.)

Of course. The perl5.26 port exists. You can install and use it. But the perl5 port does not have a perl5_26 variant, which is what you asked about.