Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 23:24:11 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> To: Henk van Oers <henk.van.oers@xs4all.nl> Cc: perl@freebsd.org, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> Subject: Re: p5-Net-3.08,1 fails to configure.... Message-ID: <E3F02DF7F73439CE97D5A9F6@atuin.in.mat.cc> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1605121828330.75185@ans.signature.nl> References: <57339791.4060406@sorbs.net> <CBEB0A7A3563D5F1476DD535@atuin.in.mat.cc> <57347C2F.4040200@sorbs.net> <544C44B2A664D9A5EF0BFC7E@ogg.in.absolight.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1605121828330.75185@ans.signature.nl>
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--==========6F83C93459B59F0CBC36========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline +--On 12 mai 2016 18:38:47 +0200 Henk van Oers <henk.van.oers@xs4all.nl> wrote: |> |> Perl 5.16 has been removed from the tree at the end of 2015. |> |> |> |> Most compat shims were then removed. | | "Most" but not all. They are removed when one goes over and update a port, or touches something. |> |> |> |> Please, use a supported (that is, unpatched) ports tree. |> |> |> |> Kind regards, |> |> |> | Up to you what you do with it. I'm just posting the fixes... if you |> | want to keep breaking stuff by forcing upgrades your userbase will keep |> | shrinking. |> | |> | If you don't want to foolproof just let me know and I won't both |> | posting any more patches. |> |> I don't mind patches fixing the FreeBSD ports tree. Your patches don't |> fix the FreeBSD ports tree, they fix your ports tree. |> |> Perl 5.16 has not been supported for a year, it was removed last year, so |> it is not supported by the ports tree. | | Some ports support running on 5.8 (eg Dancer). | What harm can a ExtUtils::MakeMaker requirement do? The port doesn't support Perl 5.8. The upstream software may support 5.8, we, The FreeBSD Project, do not. We only support the supported releases of Perl. -- Mathieu Arnold --==========6F83C93459B59F0CBC36========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJXO4v7XxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQzQUI2OTc4OUQyRUQxMjEwNjQ0MEJBNUIz QTQ1MTZGMzUxODNDRTQ4AAoJEDpFFvNRg85I7fIQALfCt/Kn1PdYmbkCMLAjNgDH 268DxyadX3LnyuxPM4HlZ7EbXzI4imZcpiiNJ708xGZRfxDWHVXHcz+L0Napk4BD RlGcAi38gek5SHSRrEQEfJOY8qSW2UD/2J0hXy2ueKecvYVgMtfSlmfveqBYZSxc u/OW4TekdttVNw28TKXX4IA5F72XvGAcSiAREgeo/k2OvV68F09Xd/H3+jV2N11M TieorzObdrLfkOie1LrC9NV/L2/v5gzBPwvhzJc+v78k2nVqLc7ozJBMT+qLYuNC 2hNMOCuVHVoduweW3UQZrybVzcsj9WXnWHttsFVv/DWKkUf1dm+AVySOc/Y7Cpna /0YHtaWSxhLfgdT0N2B4rkvq6eGPhk4IggB7b11RbiSzXVPqxRgbql5UmScOdBhz 80S8ZlwRglE02hs+vBCxa9WRzQ8hFLopwvtLCXzRcC2ZQ2KFI9cBnbYZ2c8crzZp AabH3kHUvn6DTS8byFGWYb5bY9JpzGDw+GqoWTuw9pFCnm0Ht36L1bLKWBf7h8fF VyMDI2hxtxBTV4wiJf2VI7xY3/Y1jsd270VtufFJGO8fnVAXudesTdM0UDG+TZ8P KI7CpXmUBjVBCGap864a/iAqpzyHIW2RZv/Yp17K33RgG2DSzARxL+QV7wsnG2uC hk2qJ8R3Q62+d0pKG1bW =tldi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========6F83C93459B59F0CBC36==========--
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