[HEADS-UP] switching default Perl to 5.22

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:49:30PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> 
> 
> +--On 28 ao??t 2015 17:44:55 +0200 Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> | +--On 28 ao??t 2015 17:34:49 +0200 Mark Martinec
> | <Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si> wrote:
> || 2015-08-28 17:16, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> ||> +--On 28 ao??t 2015 17:13:34 +0200 Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:
> ||> |> |> In one or two weeks, I'll be switching the default Perl version 
> ||> to
> ||> |> |> 5.22, and from now on, the new Perl will be added at the end of 
> ||> May
> ||> |> |> when released, and switched to at the beginning of September.
> ||> |> | 
> ||> |> | mod_perl is still broken with 5.22. Which is very sad. So maybe
> ||> |> | it's premature to switch the default ?
> ||> |> 
> ||> |> But, it was building when I added Perl 5.22 in May, when did it 
> ||> break ?
> ||> | 
> ||> | ohauer marked it broken on the 9th of June.
> ||> 
> ||> Oh, maybe it did not work and I told myself "never mind, mod_perl never
> ||> works anyway"
> || 
> || The lang/perl5.20 will still be in ports, for anyone that needs it.
> || 
> || Being heavy Perl users we have switched to 5.22 when it hit the ports,
> || and I have no complaints about it.
> | 
> | Oh, yes, Perl 5.20 will still be until 2018-12-31, as will 5.18 until
> | 2017-12-31 and 5.16 until 2016-12-31 :-)
> 
> Scratch that, remove one year for all those 0:-)

There is definitely some acrimony in the 5.22 release.  I only mention
Canary::Stability/stableperl bitter taste.  The TeXlive tlmgr tripped
over the cosmetic but annoying regression in 5.22, there were no fix
some time ago, despite the fact that the bug was known for porters for
long time, see http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1132751 (the article
claims that the issue was fixed, I am not sure).

Previous policy, even if informal, was to wait for 5.xx.1 before bringing
the port to the tree.  May be, we should wait for xx.1 before switching
the default port, at least ?