From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 11 23:44:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354AE16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:44:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD0BF43D49 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:44:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from clsung@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so213675rnl for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.77.53 with SMTP id z53mr806568rna; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8c0cd475040811164465e728f8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:44:18 +0800 From: AlanSung To: Ade Lovett , Sergey Skvortsov , freebsd-perl@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <70CEDA91-EBD1-11D8-8E5E-000A956B6386@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <411A46DA.6030600@iis.sinica.edu.tw> <411A5763.80702@FreeBSD.org> <70CEDA91-EBD1-11D8-8E5E-000A956B6386@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: PERL_LEVEL conditional dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:44:31 -0000 On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:02:58 -0700, Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Aug 11, 2004, at 10:29, Sergey Skvortsov wrote: > > I think your patch for p5-File-Temp: > > > > .if ${PERL_LEVEL} > 500800 > > IGNORE= "This module is already included in perl 5.8.x and later." > > .endif > > > > is senseless and detrimental. > > Ok, let's slow down a bit here. This is obviously an issue that is > likely to cause much consternation (I'm specifically avoiding use of > the "b-word" here :) It's ok, maybe I should pay more attention to this mailing list :) Another suggestion (quick and dirty, I thought) is to remove IGNORE, and add a *symbolic link* from core to site_perl directory. If there is any new p5-File-Temp (on CPAN) in the future, we can just remove that symbolic link without any damage? (accomplished by pkg-plist?) How about that? > > All p5-ports with IGNORE like "This module is already included in perl > > X.Y.Z" should be cleaned up. > > Well, the standard answer to that would be "patches welcome", but is > not particularly useful at this point. > > Going forward, I would *strongly* recommend that all the perl hooks > etc. be pulled out into a Mk/bsd.perl.mk -- this is an absolute > requirement if further work is to be done on the ports infrastructure > as it relates to perl, since we don't want to be tied into the primary > bsd.port.mk. This should be my favorite :) > ........... > -aDe -- Cheng-Lung Sung