Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:38:07 -0400 From: Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r355497 - in head: Mk/Uses lang lang/perl5.14 lang/perl5.16 lang/perl5.18 lang/perl5.20 lang/perl5.20/files Message-ID: <53CFE4EF.7000002@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <D27E52B61A9CE78E4252960E@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: <201405271219.s4RCJPng078808@svn.freebsd.org> <53CFAD8B.9000206@egr.msu.edu> <D27E52B61A9CE78E4252960E@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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On 07/23/2014 08:59, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > > +--On 23 juillet 2014 08:41:47 -0400 Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> > wrote: > | On 05/27/2014 08:19, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > |> Author: mat > |> Date: Tue May 27 12:19:24 2014 > |> New Revision: 355497 > |> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/355497 > |> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r355497/ > |> > |> Log: > |> Add perl 5.20.0. > |> > | > | Is the removal of the /usr/bin/perl option intentional? If so, should > | there be an entry in UPDATING? It tripped me up when I upgraded. Thanks. > > Yes, it was. I admit I forgot about the UPDATING entry, as the ports tree > already take care of making sure the shebang are corrects. > > Perl was removed from the base system more than ten years ago, it should > have been long enough for everybody to fix their local scripts... :-) > I am okay with the change as long as it is communicated since this removed an option that was on by default, not just disabling it. Leaving my scripts as /usr/bin/perl made them easier to share with other platforms, so I had no good reason to change my scripts. I can use #!/usr/bin/env perl as long as my PATH is set sufficiently, which is not always the case in cron.
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