#51535: perl5 portgroup: revise version numbering ----------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mojca@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | ----------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by devans@…): Concerning version numbers, note that the portgroup already attempts to reversion ports to meet MacPorts procedures. On the other hand look at the [https://metacpan.org/pod/version documentation for the version module] which attempts to take arbitrary version numbers and convert them to perl standard version objects. These converted version numbers always have a "v" prefix. If there's a choice, I'd prefer to use the official perl versions and fix our code (portgroup and otherwise) to transparently deal with any difficulties this presents. It's confusing having the MacPorts version number be different than that shown on the module homepage for instance. I think the change to using metacpan.org by default is a good one. See #51591 for an explanation of my modifications to the portgroup to deal with consistency between version numbers used in livecheck and on homepages and to allow the use of search.cpan.org on the very small number of ports where metacpan.org either retrieves something other than the most recent version or just can find the module at all. I believe this has addressed most if not all of the breakage that came with switching livecheck to metacpan.org. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51535#comment:6> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X