trace mode by default

2018-01-08 Thread db
I couldn't find this neither on port's manpage nor in macports.conf. Is there an option to set trace mode by default? Could the performace penalty be roughly quantified?

Re: What's the push to require the latest Perl?

2018-01-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Jan 2018, at 5:45 (-0500), Ryan Schmidt wrote: There's no problem here. Just because ports use perl5.24 or perl5.26 for their own purposes has no bearing on what you use for your own personal projects. [...] Understood: Multiple Perl versions can co-exist and my fear of automated breaka

Re: What's the push to require the latest Perl?

2018-01-08 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jan 8, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Bill Cole wrote: > I think a better approach would be to either require the p5-foo port OR > (better) require path:${perl5.lib}/Foo.pm:p5.${perl5.major}-foo or (best) > create a new syntax for dependencies that check for functionality, i.e. use > the return value of

Re: trace mode by default

2018-01-08 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:17:23AM +0100, db wrote: > I couldn't find this neither on port's manpage nor in macports.conf. > > Is there an option to set trace mode by default? No, not at the moment. You could contribute an option to do that, if you want. Note that some ports (e.g. Go) do not

Re: What's the push to require the latest Perl?

2018-01-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 8 Jan 2018, at 13:42 (-0500), Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Jan 8, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Bill Cole wrote: I think a better approach would be to either require the p5-foo port OR (better) require path:${perl5.lib}/Foo.pm:p5.${perl5.major}-foo or (best) create a new syntax for dependencies that check

Re: trace mode by default

2018-01-08 Thread Joshua Root
> I couldn't find this neither on port's manpage nor in macports.conf. > > Is there an option to set trace mode by default? 'porttrace yes' in macports.conf should do it. Note that then there's no way to turn it off from the command line. - Josh