Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:21:18 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com> Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Sergey Skvortsov <skv@protey.ru>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [ports] cvs commit: ports UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.perl.mk ports/lang/perl5.8 Makefile Makefile.man distinfo pkg-plist ports/lang/perl5.8/files patch-freebsd.sh patch-makedepend patch-perl.c patch-sv.c patch-utf-regcomp Message-ID: <20090114202117.GB16116@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20090114163621.GC4867@voodoo.bawue.com> References: <200901132138.n0DLcosP013731@repoman.freebsd.org> <20090113213900.DC9031065703@hub.freebsd.org> <20090114160829.GA4867@voodoo.bawue.com> <496E14C7.70306@protey.ru> <20090114162715.GB4867@voodoo.bawue.com> <496E1630.8040008@p6m7g8.com> <20090114163621.GC4867@voodoo.bawue.com>
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--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2009-Jan-14 17:36:21 +0100, Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com> wr= ote: >On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:43:28AM -0500, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> > Could you elaborate on this topic and explain the reason for separate = port? >> Not everyone is going to update immediately. Also loads of the p5- ports= will=20 >> have issues or be incompatible. > >You could run pointyhat for the issues with incompatibility. Not necessarily. Incompatibilities are more likely to show up at runtime than compile time. Unless the p5- port implements self tests and/or correct version tests, it's likely that incompatibilites will be missed. There's also the issue of user's perl code - which we can't test. (Given the incomatibilities between perl 5.6 and 5.8, this may even be justification for leaving a perl5.6 port in the tree until bitrot sets in, rather than yanking it once perl 5.10 becomes reasonably stable). >> ITs going to be dual lifed like perl 5.6 I think this is an excellent idea. Note that we have multiple jdk's and gcc's in ports. There's no reason why we can't also have several perl's. >> lang/perl5 >> lang/perl5.8 >> lang/perl5.10 > >Jeez... I'm less keen on having a perl5 port that is (effectively) obsolete. Any lang/perl or lang/perl5 port should be the latest stable release. (Java fell into that hole and a significant number of people were caught trying to install java 1.1 when they actually wanted java 1.4 or java 1.5). --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkluST0ACgkQ/opHv/APuIc5CACguTyH9uQP5u9R8l45pYLQpAj8 hDEAnjI+F4Y8rzKbA68BS7AKQOovvT7L =SDox -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--
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