p5-Net-3.08,1 fails to configure....
Mathieu Arnold
mat at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 17 21:24:14 UTC 2016
+--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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