RFC: Change default perl version to 5.10.1

[Philip M. Gollucci]

Jun Kuriyama wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm planning to update our default perl installation to
> lang/perl5.10.  But we are approaching 7.3-RELEASE, we should not so
> hurry.
> 
> (1) Submit a patch to change default version to 5.10.1 to portmgr@ to
>     run -exp build.
> (2) With these logs, fix problems as much as we can.  Minor fixes
>     should be committed (with feature safe tag).
> (3) After 7.3-REL released, commit changes switching to 5.10.1.

The patch is incomplete, you need to edit bsd.port.mk too.
I think a few prerequisites first thought:
   o) finish the Mk/bsd.perl.mk so its *conditionally* included
   o) the list of dual lifed modules is not the same for lang/perl5.8
      lang/perl5.10.  We should get that list and do a sweep, lots
      of .if constructs will need to be inverted to cover people
      that wish to stay on lang/perl5.8

Of course, I think think moving the default is a good idea and overdue.






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