about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503

[Yen-Ming Lee]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:26:26PM +0300, Sergey Skvortsov wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Port devel/p5-XSLoader is compatible with 5.00503.
> 
> > 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 ?
> 
> I offer to take out perl-5.00503 of support since 2006/01.
> 
> The cost (==pain) of maintaining compatibility with old perl is too high.
> 
> IMO supporting FreeBSD 4 != supporting old perl in ports tree.

I tried your suggestion about devel/p5-XSLoader, and it works.

I close the repocopy request for the p5-MIME-Base64 issue, and I'll remove
the IGNORE that caused by p5-MIME-Base64 from other p5-* ports later.

However, I agree that we should review our supporting policy for old perl.

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Yen-Ming Lee [utf7:+Z05fZWYO] | KeyID:0x5EB52E51 | Taipei, Taiwan
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