Re: randomly bumping things to require perl 5.30 vs 5.28 requires everyone to have both installed ...

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 22, 2020, at 09:59, Ken Cunningham wrote:

> A simple used-to-be-quick  build of "curl" now requires two different perls 
> installed.
> 
> Perhaps unavoidable in some cases, but if you look around the web, this is in 
> fact the #1 complaint about MacPorts: bloat.
> 
> It might be an idea for the admins to "set" the perl version all ports will 
> use (barring some actual real need for another), and then --- all-at-once -- 
> change it to some new version to avoid this.
> 
> And ideally we could look at changing it once every few years.

I thought we already had a tendency to do that. perl5.28 is the standard 
version to use in MacPorts today. Some ports were recently switched to 
perl5.30. There was a discussion complaining about that. They were switched 
back to perl5.28. If any others have not yet been switched back they probably 
should be.