Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Clemens Lang wrote: > Hi, > > I didn't follow the Perl discussion closely for time reasons, but there's > a patch for a perl port in https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42855 I'd like > to commit. > > Can somebody explain the current status? Should I delay perl port

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-18 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, I didn't follow the Perl discussion closely for time reasons, but there's a patch for a perl port in https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42855 I'd like to commit. Can somebody explain the current status? Should I delay perl port updates? Or, even simpler, would somebody take over the ticket and

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-13 Thread Dan Ports
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 09:00:09AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Dan Ports wrote: > > Longer-term, we need to decide whether to go to a single perl. > > Personally, I'm in favor of this. But it's clearly going to involve a > > lot of work (even if it'll save us mo

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Dan Ports wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 08:19:27AM -0700, David Evans wrote: >> As Daniel has said, no point in changing things that are going to go away so >> we need to get a consensus on where we want to go with this. My input here >> would be this: >> >> *

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Aug 12, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Dan Ports wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 08:19:27AM -0700, David Evans wrote: >> As Daniel has said, no point in changing things that are going to go away so >> we need to get a consensus on where we want to go with this. My input here >> would be this: >> >> *

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Dan Ports
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 08:19:27AM -0700, David Evans wrote: > As Daniel has said, no point in changing things that are going to go away so > we need to get a consensus on where we want to go with this. My input here > would be this: > > * make the necessary changes to perl5.18 to work as perl5.

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Another thing that I noticed: running installer in trace mode reveals many missing basic dependencies in basically all modules. Typical example: Warning: An activity was attempted outside sandbox: /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm Warning: An activity was attempted outside

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:43 PM, David Evans wrote: > On 8/12/14 9:30 AM, Frank Schima wrote: >> >> I see no reason to change perl 5.16 or lower because they are already >> working. Let’s just look forward to 5.18 and 5.20. Even if 5.18 is a lame >> duck already. >> >> For me, the only thing hold

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Frank Schima
On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Frank Schima wrote: > For me, the only thing holding up moving to perl 5.20 is p5.20-pdo, 5.20-wx > and possibly a few others that work fine with p5.16. I meant p5-pdl here. -Frank ___ macports-dev mailing list macp

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread David Evans
On 8/12/14 9:30 AM, Frank Schima wrote: > On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM, David Evans wrote: On 8/12/14 8:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Mojca Miklav

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Frank Schima
On Aug 12, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> >>> Other than that I can definitely create a new branch to simplify >>> testing and add the same patch to all perl versions. Bu

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Clemens Lang
> Is there data coming in through mpstats that could help with this > decision? What is the distribution of perl installs by version? No helpful data from mpstats at the moment. Don't bother checking. -- Clemens Lang ___ macports-dev mailing list mac

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Craig Treleaven
At 8:32 AM -0700 8/12/14, David Evans wrote: On 8/12/14 8:23 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM, David Evans wrote: On 8/12/14 8:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Now about 5.8-5.16: my idea was to initially set the INC path

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Frank Schima
On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM, David Evans wrote: >>> On 8/12/14 8:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Now about 5.8-5.16: my idea wa

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM, David Evans wrote: >> On 8/12/14 8:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Now about 5.8-5.16: my idea was to initially set the INC path for those versions in su

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread David Evans
On 8/12/14 8:23 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM, David Evans wrote: >> >> On 8/12/14 8:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Now about 5.8-5.16: my idea was to initially set the INC path for those versions in such a way

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> 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

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> 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 >> d

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Daniel J. Luke 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) b

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:20 AM, David Evans wrote: > > On 8/12/14 8:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> Now about 5.8-5.16: my idea was to initially set the INC path for >>> those versions in such a way that it would include >>> "5.16.3/darwin-th

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Daniel J. Luke 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

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread David Evans
On 8/12/14 8:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Now about 5.8-5.16: my idea was to initially set the INC path for >> those versions in such a way that it would include >> "5.16.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.16.3 >> 5.16.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Daniel J. Luke 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). Also worth noting: the current Perl release cycle is

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread David Evans
On 8/12/14 7:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:43 PM, David Evans wrote: >> I'd be happy to help with this. It's true that many ports are outdated >> version-wise (even ones that have already been ported to p5.20) >> and my recent experience suggests that many need updated >

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Daniel J. Luke 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 r

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> But I'm unable to figure out how to patch Perl to do that. The INC path additions seem to be ignored. >>> >>> Why

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> But I'm unable to figure out how to patch Perl to do that. The INC >>> path additions seem to be ignored. >> >> Why handle <= 5.16 differently than >= 5.18? > > why handle any of th

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> But I'm unable to figure out how to patch Perl to do that. The INC >> path additions seem to be ignored. > > Why handle <= 5.16 differently than >= 5.18? why handle any of them? maybe just spend the time fixing any ports that don't build w

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 12, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Now about 5.8-5.16: my idea was to initially set the INC path for > those versions in such a way that it would include > "5.16.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.16.3 > 5.16.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level 5.16.1 > 5.16.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:43 PM, David Evans wrote: > > I'd be happy to help with this. It's true that many ports are outdated > version-wise (even ones that have already been ported to p5.20) > and my recent experience suggests that many need updated > dependencies as well. > > To make things man

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> Other than that I can definitely create a new branch to simplify >> testing and add the same patch to all perl versions. But the request >> to wait with updates a bit (unless it's real

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread David Evans
On 8/12/14 7:15 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:02 PM, David Evans wrote: >> On 8/12/14 5:34 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:15 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I would like to do a massive commit with changes in perl modules. I attached

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Other than that I can definitely create a new branch to simplify > testing and add the same patch to all perl versions. But the request > to wait with updates a bit (unless it's really really really needed) > still stands. you could create

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:02 PM, David Evans wrote: > On 8/12/14 5:34 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:15 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to do a massive commit with changes in perl modules. >>> >>> I attached a patch to >>>https://trac.macports.org/ticket

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread David Evans
On 8/12/14 5:34 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:15 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to do a massive commit with changes in perl modules. >> >> I attached a patch to >>https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43480 >> two days ago, but it is no longer suitable as such

Re: Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:15 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to do a massive commit with changes in perl modules. > > I attached a patch to >https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43480 > two days ago, but it is no longer suitable as such out-of-the-box > since there were a bunch of

Perl changes (+ please wait a bit with commits in perl modules if possible)

2014-08-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, I would like to do a massive commit with changes in perl modules. I attached a patch to https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43480 two days ago, but it is no longer suitable as such out-of-the-box since there were a bunch of changes in perl modules (including changing exactly the files that I