Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:26:26 +0300 From: Sergey Skvortsov <skv@protey.ru> To: Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org> Cc: perl@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503 Message-ID: <43A91FC2.3010009@protey.ru> In-Reply-To: <20051221062909.GA93715@utopia.leeym.com> References: <20051221062909.GA93715@utopia.leeym.com>
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Yen-Ming Lee wrote: > > There are too many p5-* ports that mark IGNORE when PERL_LEVEL < 500600 > due to the dependency of p5-MIME-Base64, which uses XSLoader and requires > perl 5.6.0 since p5-MIME-Base64-3.06. Port devel/p5-XSLoader is compatible with 5.00503. > I think we are still supporting FreeBSD 4 and its built-in perl 5.00503, > so it might be a problem for the older perl users. > > Will it be a good idea to repocopy converters/p5-MIME-Base64 to > converters/p5-MIME-Base64-305, and use conditional dependency like what > we did for databases/p5-DBI and databases/p5-DBI-137 ? I offer to take out perl-5.00503 of support since 2006/01. The cost (==pain) of maintaining compatibility with old perl is too high. IMO supporting FreeBSD 4 != supporting old perl in ports tree. -- Sergey Skvortsov mailto: skv@protey.ru
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