Hi, I believe that we are ready to make the transition to 5.20 as the default version of Perl in MacPorts.
There is a small number of ports that still lack support for 5.20. But that's about 1-2% of all ports only, and many of them are lacking support just because they are broken under 5.16 anyway, or because it would be nice to update the version first and that introduces extra dependencies and extra work etc. We can always just add 5.18/5.20 to the list of subports even for those semi-broken ports. See http://trac.macports.org/ticket/46005 for details. This is how we made the recent transition of switching ports from 5.12 to 5.16: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/44405 which took about 5 months for all the maintainers (not) to respond. Thanks to a patch by Bradley (pixilla) it also became easy to add perl5_xy variants to ports in order to support multiple Perl versions, see details in the following ticket for example: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/46570 Does anyone volunteer to start the transition to 5.20 and open a ticket similar to #44405 to switch from 5.16 to 5.20? Mojca _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev