cpanp error

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> My mistake. git-core depends on perl5, like I said, but perl5  
> depends on perl5.8. I had thought perl5 could make use of either  
> perl5.8 or perl5.10, whichever was already installed, but I was  
> wrong. In that case, there isn't a way to have MacPorts use perl5.10.
>
> Marcus, what is the purpose of perl5, then? :) Why did we spend all  
> this effort converting ports from depending on perl5.8 to depending  
> on perl5?

I think the eventual plan was to have perl5 update to the most recent  
stable perl 5.x.x (instead of having it be a stand in for any perl5).

> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16830 is the ticket about perl5,  
> which is very lengthy and I don't feel like like reading through it  
> all now. The last comments say we're waiting on perl 5.10.1 to be  
> released, which still hasn't happened.

It's a mistake to be waiting for perl 5.10.1, we should be shipping  
5.10 as the default perl.

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