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Subject: Re: about converters/p5-MIME-Base64 on perl 5.00503
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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.

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Sergey Skvortsov
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