[132613] trunk/dports/perl

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 5, 2015, at 9:54 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I think the perl5 portgroup is supposed to contain code now to make it easy to create perl variants, instead of having to write all this code to do it manually.
> 
> eperl is not a Perl module though, it is a Perl *interpreter* (embedded Perl). The portgroup fits somewhat dubiously as a result, and it's easier to duplicate that part of the portgroup logic than to suppress or mutate all the rest of the portgroup's logic.

I thought the perl5 portgroup now has two purposes:

1. to implement subports for perl modules
2. to add perl variants to ports that use perl

I was suggesting to use this second new functionality of the perl5 portgroup in the eperl port.