Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-22 Thread robert delius royar
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 (00:54 +0100 UTC) Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-12-21 10:34:00 -0500, robert delius royar wrote: I compiled perl 5.10.0 with the same configuration that macports 5.8.8 used. [I have the perl5.8 port set as the primary perl interpretor and have created links in /usr/local/[bin

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-21 10:34:00 -0500, robert delius royar wrote: > I compiled perl 5.10.0 with the same configuration that macports 5.8.8 > used. [I have the perl5.8 port set as the primary perl interpretor and > have created links in /usr/local/[bin|lib|share] to make it so that > other software fi

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-21 Thread robert delius royar
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 (03:35 +0100 UTC) Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-12-20 12:52:48 -0500, Mark Gardner wrote: There are some incompatible changes (see http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0-RC2/pod/perl5100delta.pod#Incompatible_Changes), so some might want to stick with 5.8. I'd say that

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-20 11:52:21 -0700, Boyd Waters wrote: > On Dec 20, 2007, at 2:09 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> Is there a need for two different ports? > > Since you can't specify a version when you install a port, or use a > port in a dependency, then I've been told to just go ahead and make > a separa

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-20 12:52:48 -0500, Mark Gardner wrote: > There are some incompatible changes (see > http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0-RC2/pod/perl5100delta.pod#Incompatible_Changes), > so some might want to stick with 5.8. I'd say that very few modules or scripts should be affected (if any),

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Boyd Waters
On Dec 20, 2007, at 2:09 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-12-20 10:00:24 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote: http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13641 Perl 5.10.0 has now been released, so there are now two stable port versions available: "perl5.8" and "perl5.10" Is there a nee

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Mark Gardner
On Dec 20, 2007 12:52 PM, Mark Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are some incompatible changes (see > http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0-RC2/pod/perl5100delta.pod#Incompatible_Changes), > so some might want to stick with 5.8. Sorry, that should have been http://search.cpan.org/~r

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Mark Gardner
On Dec 20, 2007 4:09 AM, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-12-20 10:00:24 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote: > > http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13641 > > > > Perl 5.10.0 has now been released, so there are now two > > stable port versions available: "perl5.8" and

Re: Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-12-20 10:00:24 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote: > http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13641 > > Perl 5.10.0 has now been released, so there are now two > stable port versions available: "perl5.8" and "perl5.10" Is there a need for two different ports? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[E

Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

2007-12-20 Thread Anders F Björklund
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13641 Perl 5.10.0 has now been released, so there are now two stable port versions available: "perl5.8" and "perl5.10" Should we delete "${prefix}/bin/perl" just like we did with "${prefix}/bin/python", or is there a better option ? --anders __