Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:38:49 +0800 From: Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org> To: Sergey Skvortsov <skv@protey.ru> Cc: perl@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503 Message-ID: <20051221123849.GA39303@utopia.leeym.com> In-Reply-To: <43A91FC2.3010009@protey.ru> References: <20051221062909.GA93715@utopia.leeym.com> <43A91FC2.3010009@protey.ru>
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--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--
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