From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 21 12:38:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: perl@FreeBSD.org 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 D9E0A16A41F for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:38:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leeym@utopia.leeym.com) Received: from msr55.hinet.net (msr55.hinet.net [168.95.4.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2AEA43D5A for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:38:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leeym@utopia.leeym.com) Received: from utopia.leeym.com (arcadia.leeym.com [211.21.137.53]) by msr55.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA09219; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:38:54 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by utopia.leeym.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D6CB29D43; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:38:54 +0800 (CST) Received: from utopia.leeym.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (utopia.leeym.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39381-04; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:38:49 +0800 (CST) Received: by utopia.leeym.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E975B29D19; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:38:49 +0800 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:38:49 +0800 From: Yen-Ming Lee To: Sergey Skvortsov Message-ID: <20051221123849.GA39303@utopia.leeym.com> References: <20051221062909.GA93715@utopia.leeym.com> <43A91FC2.3010009@protey.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43A91FC2.3010009@protey.ru> X-Fingerprint: FE 7E 04 56 FC D7 24 21 B9 3B 53 06 E8 93 B5 81 X-Public-Key: http://www.leeym.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at leeym.com Cc: perl@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503 X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 21 Dec 2005 12:39:00 -0000 --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:26:26PM +0300, Sergey Skvortsov wrote: > 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. I tried your suggestion about devel/p5-XSLoader, and it works. I close the repocopy request for the p5-MIME-Base64 issue, and I'll remove the IGNORE that caused by p5-MIME-Base64 from other p5-* ports later. However, I agree that we should review our supporting policy for old perl. -- Yen-Ming Lee [utf7:+Z05fZWYO] | KeyID:0x5EB52E51 | Taipei, Taiwan --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQ6lM2cnMx0NetS5RAQJomQQAynyM4+Sssk1SfUkhY7fE30tKjj8IRHlq dX1+5GbcYCoc9GkHA+LxaElKwNpZByVVWOn98bcC/uteygNKt2HMeKsgokXvkNbW dGrfltqyCqsZVpdTgMvj4BlqfyRLgHMNYvJwkUC2aeMBO3jleC/xJaNd083V/SSV a7rjqTyUltE= =eDfd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH--