perl subsystem improvements: plans

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:06:52PM +0400, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I plan to improve a perl subsystem. Here is what I'v planed:
> 
> 1) make perl ports coexists without conflicts. So, you'll able install 
> all perls and switch between them with use.perl <perl_version) (5.6.1, 
> 5.8.0 and system for -STABLE). One perl will active, other passive but 
> still able to use. Active perl will have all perl stuff in 
> /usr/local/bin and will have active man pages, other perl will have only 
> /usr/bin/perl${PERL_VER} and /usr/local/bin/perl${PERL_VER}.
> (90% done)
> 2) move all perl related stuff from bsd.port.mk to bsd.perl.mk. Just 
> like ruby and python. (100% done, testing)
> 3) make ability to install any perl depended ports for perl version you 
> want. You'll able to install the ports for all perls in your system 
> without conflicts (They'll be differ with PKGNAMEPREFIX: p5-, p56-, 
> p58-). (0% done, thinking :).

This sounds like a good plan.  Please try to coordinate your work with
the perl maintainer, tobez at FreeBSD.org.

I'd also suggest:

4) Fix the remaining issues with files being left behind by perl at
deinstall-time

  http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-4-full-logs/extras.html
  http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-5-full-logs/extras.html

Kris



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