#49982: perl5: change default perl from 5.16 to 5.22 -----------------------+---------------------- Reporter: devans@… | Owner: devans@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: perl5 | -----------------------+---------------------- Comment (by devans@…): Replying to [comment:1 mojca@…]:
David, in order to avoid opening too many tickets I'm attaching my proposal for a `perl5` port that unifies all perl5-related ports. I didn't add the patchfiles yet (there are tiny differences, so I would need to rename them first). It's not exactly related to the issue at hand, but what do you think?
Feel free to proceed with the rest of the changes needed to make 5.22 the default Perl.
(I used the name `xperl5.x` to avoid naming clashes while testing, but that should be changed to `perl5.x` of course.)
Mojca, I think the idea of consolidating the current separate perl5.* ports into perl5 as subports makes sense and is in line with current practice in other port series. Of course, all but one of these will hopefully be removed in the not too distant future but we need to come to a consensus on exactly how that will be done. Personally, taking a page from other perl managers, I would propose to add subports for the current unstable perl version, the current upstream git master (blead) and perhaps a generic alias to the current stable perl. One might call these perl5-stable perl5-devel perl5-blead. I think that this would be useful to users who are actually developing perl modules and would like to test against these versions without concern as to which version is stable, unstable, etc. Also I think it would be appropriate for you to place yourself as the first maintainer rather than myself given your contributions in this area over the past year or so. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49982#comment:5> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X