[ports] cvs commit: ports UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.perl.mk ports/lang/perl5.8 Makefile Makefile.man distinfo pkg-plist ports/lang/perl5.8/files patch-freebsd.sh patch-makedepend patch-perl.c patch-sv.c patch-utf-regcomp

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (01.15.2009 @ 1546 PST): Lars Balker Rasmussen said, in 0.5K: <<
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:36:12PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> > Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > >Sergey Skvortsov pí?e v st 14. 01. 2009 v 19:51 +0300:
> > >>- rename lang/perl5 to lang/perl5.6
> > >Can I vote to just drop perl5.6 instead?
> > Me too. 5.6 is complete useless nowadays.
> 
> Absolutely.  5.6 needs to disappear.  We're doing our users a serious 
> disservice by having lang/perl5 be 5.6.
> 
> And 5.10.0 rocks.
> -- 
> Lars Balker Rasmussen                                        Consult::Perl
>> end of "Re: [ports] cvs commit: ports UPDATING ports/Mk?bsd.perl.mk?ports/lang/perl5.8 Makefile Makefile.man distinfo?pkg-plist?ports/lang/perl5.8/files patch-freebsd.sh patch-makedepend?patch-perl.c patch-sv.c patch-utf-regcomp" from Lars Balker Rasmu

While I agree that having lang/perl5 be 5.6 is lame (and makes a very
clear statement that FreeBSD is unable to evolve), I don't see why
everyone is insisting that 5.6 be removed from the tree altogether.

Make a lang/perl port. Set it to always be the current stable version.
Get rid of lang/perl5; nobody is going to want to install perl4. Once
there is a lang/perl port that points to the *current stable version*,
let perl@ create as many version-specific ports as their hearts desire.

I've never understood why there was a lang/perl5 port. For god's sake,
take a look at the tree from a new user's perspective and think, "If I
wanted to install perl, where would I expect to find it?"

# Adam


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