On 2021-06-12 at 12:55:24 UTC-0400 (Sat, 12 Jun 2021 09:55:24 -0700)
Ken Cunningham <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
macports recommended perl is still 5.28
Which has been unsupported upstream for just over a year. 5.30 just fell
out of support a few weeks ago. They are doing a major release every
year and only supporting the current and prior stable releases. "Pace"
is all the rage these days, having supplanted "stability."
I still have stable production on 5.28.3 because of some known issues in
5.30 and later with code hygiene, but I need to work on those issues so
a 5.30 test system (and soon 5.32) is necessary for me.
$ port info perl5
perl5 @5.28.3 (lang)
Sub-ports: perl5.16, perl5.18, perl5.20, perl5.22,
perl5.24, perl5.26, perl5.28, perl5.30, perl5.32
Variants: perl5_26, [+]perl5_28, perl5_30
Odd that perl5.32 is a sub-port but perl5_32 isn't a variant.
so that is supposed to be the default perl for everything, until such
time as that is changed to perl 5.30.
So if you want perl 5.30 for everything, you will be fighting upstream
at every turn.
I see it more as opening a second front downstream of MacPorts in
alliance with the Perl upstream. :)
Someone could make a full-time+ job of maintaining just the Perl
packages in MacPorts.
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