Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:18:31 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuild all ports for perl minor version update? Message-ID: <51BAD1D7.5020500@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <88415.98533.bm@smtp104.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <88415.98533.bm@smtp104.sbc.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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On 6/14/2013 10:12, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Since this is only (?) a minor-version update, why should it be necessary to upgrade all ports that depend on perl? > In that case, why didn't they go to perl 5.18? According to OpenBSD's Marc Espie on a pkgsrc list, a lot of established scripts will break on perl 5.18. Apparently it is not highly backwards compatible. A large % of the perl packages would cease to build if they just moved to 5.18. A minor upgrade is definitely better. John
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