From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 3 13:41:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF661065672 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Received: from xiurhn.etoilebsd.net (xiurhn.etoilebsd.net [94.23.37.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CA38FC1C for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by xiurhn.etoilebsd.net (Postfix, from userid 80) id A67A57E80D; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 15:24:32 +0200 (CEST) To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:24:32 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <51bb94aac2e461394eb532e5481fe053@etoilebsd.net> X-Sender: bapt@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.3 Subject: Re: why fully versionned vendorlib vendorbin and vendorarch? 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, 03 Aug 2011 13:41:15 -0000 On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:18:06 +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hi, > > I can't get why we used versionned vendorbin, vendorarch and > vendorlib with perl it seems to only provide us problems: need of > perl-after-upgrade, reinstallation of most p5- things after even a > simple 5.12.3 -> 5.12.4 upgrade? > > why not follow what is done by default by the build system and use a > string (not versionned for those variable) like perl5_vendors or > something like that? > > That would also allow user to upgrade from 5.12 to 5.14 almost > painless. if really changing from 5.12 to 5.14 can lead to majors > incompatibility problems (which I'm not convinced at all) we could > use > perl5.12 but not including the minor version which still is not that > good to me but way better. > > regards, > Bapt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-perl@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-perl > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-perl-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" As noone object I think that may say I can go ahead and fix that? regards, Bapt