p5-Net-3.08,1 fails to configure....

[Mathieu Arnold]

+--On 12 mai 2016 18:38:47 +0200 Henk van Oers <henk.van.oers at 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
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