On Jan 11, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Dave Horsfall <[email protected]> wrote: > You might want to note that FreeBSD ports uses a ">=" test on versions e.g. > Perl 5.26 will satisfy the 5.24 requirement (unless, of course, there was the > aforesaid technical reason why it cannot).
MacPorts doesn't support version comparisons in dependency specifications (this is a really old issue that's been discussed a lot over the years). > And if it comes down to a simple manpower issue, then let the record show > that I am willing to help if it will avoid people (like me) having to > have multiple versions of Perl bloatware (which reason, by the way, is why > I'm starting to move to Ruby instead; Python is for the birds). I look forward to seeing your contributions! Maybe you will come up with a solution that no one else has thought of yet. :) -- Daniel J. Luke
