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From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
Subject: Re: ports/51554: p5-File-Spec is too picky
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The following reply was made to PR ports/51554; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, dburr@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/51554: p5-File-Spec is too picky
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:29:15 +0200

 On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:12:30PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
 
 > >Synopsis:       p5-File-Spec is too picky
 
 > The makefile for devel/p5-File-Spec says:
 > .if ${PERL_LEVEL} > 500600
 > IGNORE=         This port is for perl 5.6.0 and under only.
 > .endif
 
 > The makefile for www/p5-WWW-Search says:
 > .if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500800
 > BUILD_DEPENDS+= ${SITE_PERL}/File/Spec.pm:${PORTSDIR}/devel/p5-File-Spec \
 >                 ${LOCALBASE}/lib/perl5/site_perl/${PERL_VER}/Test/More.pm:${PORTSDIR}/devel/p5-Test-Simple
 > .endif
 
 > I don't know who to believe, it's either p5-File-Spec which is too
 > picky and should allow 5.6.1 to install p5-File-Spec too or
 > p5-WWW-Search which is not strict enough and should check for 5.6.0
 > and lower.
 
 > Any suggestions?
 
 I would say, both.  perl 5.6.1 is supplied with File::Spec 0.82 - the
 same version as p5-File-Spec in the ports.  So at least, there is no
 harm done.  On the other hand, WWW-Search wants at least 0.82, so it
 could accept 5.6.1 without any probs.
 
 Cheers,
 %Anton.
 -- 
 Perl is strongly typed, it just has very few types. -- Dan Sugalski