From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 06:35:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: perl@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905A2106564A; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:35:47 +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 5B3BE8FC08; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by xiurhn.etoilebsd.net (Postfix, from userid 80) id 8EB2D7E897; Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:18:06 +0200 (CEST) To: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:18:06 +0000 From: Baptiste Daroussin Message-ID: X-Sender: bapt@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.3 Cc: Subject: 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, 20 Jul 2011 06:35:47 -0000 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