What's the push to require the latest Perl?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 11, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> You might want to note that FreeBSD ports uses a ">=" test on versions e.g. Perl 5.26 will satisfy the 5.24 requirement (unless, of course, there was the aforesaid technical reason why it cannot).

MacPorts doesn't support version comparisons in dependency specifications (this is a really old issue that's been discussed a lot over the years).

> And if it comes down to a simple manpower issue, then let the record show
> that I am willing to help if it will avoid people (like me) having to
> have multiple versions of Perl bloatware (which reason, by the way, is why I'm starting to move to Ruby instead; Python is for the birds).

I look forward to seeing your contributions! Maybe you will come up with a solution that no one else has thought of yet. :)

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Daniel J. Luke