Re: Remove Apache 1.3.x port

2011-02-27 Thread Jasper Frumau
No objections here.. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I'd like to remove the apache port, which is for version 1.3.x of the > Apache web server. Introduced in 1998, Apache 1.3 reached end-of-life status > in February 2010. Apache 2.x has been available since 2002, 2.2.x sinc

Remove Apache 1.3.x port

2011-02-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
I'd like to remove the apache port, which is for version 1.3.x of the Apache web server. Introduced in 1998, Apache 1.3 reached end-of-life status in February 2010. Apache 2.x has been available since 2002, 2.2.x since 2005. There are a small handful of ports that still depend (usually optionall

Re: perl5, perl5.* changes

2011-02-27 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 27, 2011, at 09:28, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Feb 27, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >>> Sure. Are you suggesting that something can/should be done right now to >>> help this? >> >> One was already suggested: the perl5 port should have added a 5.8 variant >> that became the

Re: perl5, perl5.* changes

2011-02-27 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Feb 27, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Sure. Are you suggesting that something can/should be done right now to help >> this? > > One was already suggested: the perl5 port should have added a 5.8 variant > that became the default, you do know that the perl5 port used to be perl5

Re: perl5, perl5.* changes

2011-02-27 Thread Martin Krischik
Am 26.02.11 21:39, schrieb Dan Ports: > In the meantime, I've reinstalled the perl5 port with +perl5_8 in the > interest of having a working system. Thanks for the hint. It seems that Gimp compiles again. My defaults will now be “-atlas +perl5_8” and I hope all will be well again :-) Martin --

Re: perl5, perl5.* changes

2011-02-27 Thread Martin Krischik
Am 26.02.11 22:47, schrieb Daniel J. Luke: > but I don't know of any reasons to keep 5.8 around. Truer words where never spoken (in this thread). Martin -- Martin Krischik mailto://krisc...@users.sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/users/krischik

Re: perl5, perl5.* changes

2011-02-27 Thread Martin Krischik
Am 26.02.11 21:35, schrieb Arno Hautala: > Those who want to stick with 5.8 need to recognize that a > change is being made and specifically add the 5.8 variant. You forgetting something here: Most users actually give a s**t which Perl version is installed. All they want is to compile some port

Re: perl5, perl5.* changes

2011-02-27 Thread Martin Krischik
Am 26.02.11 21:02, schrieb Daniel J. Luke: > If you've got ideas (or code) for how to help make things better, I'm sure > people would be happy :) Yes: Stop supporting so many different versions. Just support the newest official version of Perl 5 and Perl 6 and rev-bump all modules every time you