[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

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2009-Jan-14 17:36:21 +0100, Kirill Ponomarew <krion at voodoo.bawue.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:43:28AM -0500, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
>> > Could you elaborate on this topic and explain the reason for separate port?
>> Not everyone is going to update immediately. Also loads of the p5- ports will 
>> have issues or be incompatible.
>
>You could run pointyhat for the issues with incompatibility.

Not necessarily.  Incompatibilities are more likely to show up at
runtime than compile time.  Unless the p5- port implements self
tests and/or correct version tests, it's likely that incompatibilites
will be missed.  There's also the issue of user's perl code - which
we can't test.  (Given the incomatibilities between perl 5.6 and 5.8,
this may even be justification for leaving a perl5.6 port in the tree
until bitrot sets in, rather than yanking it once perl 5.10 becomes
reasonably stable).

>> ITs going to be dual lifed like perl 5.6

I think this is an excellent idea.  Note that we have multiple jdk's
and gcc's in ports.  There's no reason why we can't also have
several perl's.

>> lang/perl5
>> lang/perl5.8
>> lang/perl5.10
>
>Jeez...

I'm less keen on having a perl5 port that is (effectively) obsolete.
Any lang/perl or lang/perl5 port should be the latest stable release.
(Java fell into that hole and a significant number of people were
caught trying to install java 1.1 when they actually wanted java 1.4
or java 1.5).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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