Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:20:47 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl5.8 and Perl5 installed ... use.perl ... ? Message-ID: <20021214222047.GC37142@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20021214180305.O13175-100000@hub.org> References: <20021214180305.O13175-100000@hub.org>
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:05:26PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > If I install both perl 5.6 and perl 5.8, how can I switch between > using one or the other? I'm guessin taht installing one after the > other will overwrite the previous use.perl script ... ? Not only that, but also /usr/local/bin/perl will be overridden. As much as I hate to say it, there are currently no good provisions for both 5.6 and 5.8 to co-exist on a FreeBSD system (if you use the ports collection, that is). > might it be a better idea to have a use.perl5.8 vs use.perl5.6 script > installed instead? The eventual plan is to do something like this (or maybe make a separate use.perl port which will understand '5.6' and '5.8' as an argument and be required by all lang/perl5* ports). But since the actual amount of changes required is much larger than just that (in particular, the proper scheme must account for the possibility to install various p5- ports which use either 5.8 or 5.6 without file- and package-space conflicts), I do not see this happening any time soon. If you or anyone else feels like trying to tackle this task, be my guest - patches are always welcome! Cheers, =Anton. -- | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | | catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | | tobez@catpipe.net (_(_|| | tobez@FreeBSD.org | | +45 7021 0050 | Private: tobez@tobez.org | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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