From owner-freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Tue May 17 21:24:14 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E38B3F6FB for ; Tue, 17 May 2016 21:24:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2404E12CB for ; Tue, 17 May 2016 21:24:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 225B5B3F6F7; Tue, 17 May 2016 21:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: perl@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21960B3F6F6 for ; Tue, 17 May 2016 21:24:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat@FreeBSD.org) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (prod2.absolight.net [79.143.243.136]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "plouf.absolight.net", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9B0312BA for ; Tue, 17 May 2016 21:24:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat@FreeBSD.org) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B219BDC71; Tue, 17 May 2016 23:24:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from atuin.in.mat.cc (atuin.in.mat.cc [79.143.241.205]) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E06A2BDC5C; Tue, 17 May 2016 23:24:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atuin.in.mat.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9E060398A8; Tue, 17 May 2016 23:24:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 23:24:11 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold To: Henk van Oers cc: perl@freebsd.org, Michelle Sullivan Subject: Re: p5-Net-3.08,1 fails to configure.... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <57339791.4060406@sorbs.net> <57347C2F.4040200@sorbs.net> <544C44B2A664D9A5EF0BFC7E@ogg.in.absolight.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="==========6F83C93459B59F0CBC36==========" X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 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: Tue, 17 May 2016 21:24:14 -0000 --==========6F83C93459B59F0CBC36========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline +--On 12 mai 2016 18:38:47 +0200 Henk van Oers wrote: |> |> Perl 5.16 has been removed from the tree at the end of 2015. |> |> |> |> Most compat shims were then removed. | | "Most" but not all. They are removed when one goes over and update a port, or touches something. |> |> |> |> Please, use a supported (that is, unpatched) ports tree. |> |> |> |> Kind regards, |> |> |> | Up to you what you do with it. I'm just posting the fixes... if you |> | want to keep breaking stuff by forcing upgrades your userbase will keep |> | shrinking. |> | |> | If you don't want to foolproof just let me know and I won't both |> | posting any more patches. |> |> I don't mind patches fixing the FreeBSD ports tree. Your patches don't |> fix the FreeBSD ports tree, they fix your ports tree. |> |> Perl 5.16 has not been supported for a year, it was removed last year, so |> it is not supported by the ports tree. | | Some ports support running on 5.8 (eg Dancer). | What harm can a ExtUtils::MakeMaker requirement do? The port doesn't support Perl 5.8. The upstream software may support 5.8, we, The FreeBSD Project, do not. We only support the supported releases of Perl. -- Mathieu Arnold --==========6F83C93459B59F0CBC36========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJXO4v7XxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQzQUI2OTc4OUQyRUQxMjEwNjQ0MEJBNUIz QTQ1MTZGMzUxODNDRTQ4AAoJEDpFFvNRg85I7fIQALfCt/Kn1PdYmbkCMLAjNgDH 268DxyadX3LnyuxPM4HlZ7EbXzI4imZcpiiNJ708xGZRfxDWHVXHcz+L0Napk4BD RlGcAi38gek5SHSRrEQEfJOY8qSW2UD/2J0hXy2ueKecvYVgMtfSlmfveqBYZSxc u/OW4TekdttVNw28TKXX4IA5F72XvGAcSiAREgeo/k2OvV68F09Xd/H3+jV2N11M TieorzObdrLfkOie1LrC9NV/L2/v5gzBPwvhzJc+v78k2nVqLc7ozJBMT+qLYuNC 2hNMOCuVHVoduweW3UQZrybVzcsj9WXnWHttsFVv/DWKkUf1dm+AVySOc/Y7Cpna /0YHtaWSxhLfgdT0N2B4rkvq6eGPhk4IggB7b11RbiSzXVPqxRgbql5UmScOdBhz 80S8ZlwRglE02hs+vBCxa9WRzQ8hFLopwvtLCXzRcC2ZQ2KFI9cBnbYZ2c8crzZp AabH3kHUvn6DTS8byFGWYb5bY9JpzGDw+GqoWTuw9pFCnm0Ht36L1bLKWBf7h8fF VyMDI2hxtxBTV4wiJf2VI7xY3/Y1jsd270VtufFJGO8fnVAXudesTdM0UDG+TZ8P KI7CpXmUBjVBCGap864a/iAqpzyHIW2RZv/Yp17K33RgG2DSzARxL+QV7wsnG2uC hk2qJ8R3Q62+d0pKG1bW =tldi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========6F83C93459B59F0CBC36==========--