<div dir="ltr">Yeah. I think bumping it to 5.20 is the best idea, as we slowly move toward toward the goal of One Perl to Rule Them All. Or whatever we wind up doing.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">—Mark<br>_______________________<br>Mark E. Anderson <<a href="mailto:emer@emer.net" target="_blank">emer@emer.net</a>><br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Mojca Miklavec <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mojca@macports.org" target="_blank">mojca@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:<br>
> I also wouldn't have a problem with individual ports like help2man moving to newer perl versions like 5.20. I don't feel that we need to wait and try to do every single port at once, as that's likely to either not happen because of the amount of work involved or to introduce problems because of insufficient testing.<br>
<br>
</span>It would actually be really nice if someone would volunteer to create<br>
a new ticket like this one:<br>
<a href="http://trac.macports.org/ticket/44405" target="_blank">http://trac.macports.org/ticket/44405</a><br>
to replace 5.16 with 5.20 and if we start the transition towards 5.20<br>
(optimally before they release 5.22).<br>
<br>
Being able to pick perl5_20 allows one to "get rid of" perl 5.16 and<br>
allows for some more testing, but if 5.20 is supported out of the box,<br>
there might be no need to offer the choice.<br>
<br>
I like variants, but I hate one specific aspect of them: when user<br>
installs one variant by default (for example +perl5_16) and when the<br>
default shifts to, say, +perl5_20, the user's choice remains at the<br>
old value (for no good reason) and the user no longer gets binary<br>
archives. I usually experience this "problem" with +gcc4x or +clang3x.<br>
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