On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm just saying, it's a /lot/ of effort to do this for p5.8-p5.20 ports when
>> it could be reduced (somewhat) by just working on p5.20... (and
>> deprecating/removing everything else).
>
> It seems to me an order of magnitude more effort to reduce everything to "one
> perl" right now. I foresee each module port needing to be manually edited,
> plus overhauling the perl5 portgroup. Mojca's current proposal only requires
> revbumping each port, which can be automated to some degree.
that's pretty much why we're in the situation we are now - we just continue
with the current setup because it's 'easier'. Someone puts a bunch of effort
into making things work with a newer (but never the current) perl, and then dev
stops and we do the same dance later (but with even more perls).
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Daniel J. Luke
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