On Feb 21 11:05:23, dl...@geeklair.net wrote: > On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Bruce Miller <bruce.mil...@nist.gov> wrote: > > With MacPort's perl 5.12, the executable is installed in > > /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin > > which is *NOT* where people expect to find programs. > > And it's NOT a directory people want to maintain in > > their $PATH. > > why? Why would people care whether they have /opt/local/bin or > /opt/local/libexec/perl5.12/sitebin or /my/nonstandard/macports/prefix/bin in > their $PATH?
People will care that they (1) have to tweak their PATH at all (2) have to pollute with /opt/local/libexec/version-du-jour-123 and keep an eye on what the exact verion is this week. > > The reason for the configuration change > > is to achieve the noble goal of being able > > to install multiple versions of Perl, and > > multiple versions of software running under > > those Perls. Please excuse my Perl ignorance - what would be a realistic scenario for having multiple versions of Perl installed, and multiple version of Perl software on top of those? I can imagine a Perl developer might want this, but that hardly justifies forcing the majority (I believe) of users who just want to have one Perl and one p5-foo on their system, without having to tweak their configuration to be able to run it. > As an aside, I personally don't feel that the benefits of > having multiple perl versions available is worth it > - I think we would be better served by just pushing > the current stable perl... I agree. Jan _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users