about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503

[Anton Berezin]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:29:09PM +0800, Yen-Ming Lee wrote:

> There are too many p5-* ports that mark IGNORE when PERL_LEVEL < 500600
> due to the dependency of p5-MIME-Base64, which uses XSLoader and requires
> perl 5.6.0 since p5-MIME-Base64-3.06.
> 
> I think we are still supporting FreeBSD 4 and its built-in perl 5.00503,
> so it might be a problem for the older perl users.
> 
> Will it be a good idea to repocopy converters/p5-MIME-Base64 to
> converters/p5-MIME-Base64-305, and use conditional dependency like what
> we did for databases/p5-DBI and databases/p5-DBI-137 ?
> 
> any comments?

I would not bother, frankly.  There are too many useful modules around
to not install perl from ports nowadays.

But other than that, the proposed solution is good, so if you feel like
doing it, then why not?

\Anton.
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