On 6/14/2013 10:12, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Since this is only (?) a minor-version update, why should it be necessary to upgrade all ports that depend on perl? In that case, why didn't they go to perl 5.18?
According to OpenBSD's Marc Espie on a pkgsrc list, a lot of established scripts will break on perl 5.18. Apparently it is not highly backwards compatible.
A large % of the perl packages would cease to build if they just moved to 5.18. A minor upgrade is definitely better.
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