What's the push to require the latest Perl?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> If you have been using perl5.24 and p5.24 modules for your own projects 
> and now want to use perl5.26, simply install the p5.26 versions of the 
> modules you want.

Err, why should a user have to waste disk space on two versions of Perl? 
Surely if a port needs features in 5.24 then it should be happy with 5.26?

> I have not used FreeBSD and am not familiar with the UPDATING file.

I do, and I am :-)  It's a file summarising the changes in that particular 
update, with particular attention on traps for the unwary etc e.g. "You 
must now do XXX" etc.

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