[MacPorts] #16830: RFE: Have only one perl5 package
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Sun Oct 12 12:53:42 PDT 2008
#16830: RFE: Have only one perl5 package
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Reporter: mcalhoun at macports.org | Owner: mcalhoun at macports.org
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Enhancements
Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0
Resolution: | Keywords:
Port: |
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Comment(by dluke at macports.org):
That seems OK to me, although I'm also happy with just having perl5.10
become the default perl for us already.
The one issue I still see would be with upgrading, an unknown number of p5
ports that were installed for perl5.8 would need to be rebuilt to work
with perl5.10 - and we don't have a good way of exposing that to macports
(usually in cases like that, we end up resorting to rev-bumping things
that haven't changed so that people rebuild them).
I would lean towards having perl5.8 no longer install ${prefix}/bin/perl,
have perl5.10 do that, and update the group code and other ports to depend
on perl5.10 unless they specifically need perl5.8 for some reason.
[And then someone needs to tackle the whole @INC ordering or other work-
around for building newer versions of modules that get installed with the
perl port.]
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830#comment:6>
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