Perl has changed over time, gaining new features, new functions, increasing its
flexibility, and reducing the impact on the C namespace environment (reduced
pollution). The header file, typically ppport.h, written by this module attempts
to bring some of the newer Perl features to older versions of Perl, so that you
can worry less about keeping track of old releases, but users can still reap
the benefit.
Why you should use ppport.h in modern code: so that your code will work with
the widest range of Perl interpreters possible, without significant additional
work.
Why you should attempt older code to fully use ppport.h: because the reduced
pollution of newer Perl versions is an important thing, so important that the
old polluting ways of original Perl modules will not be supported very far into
the future, and your module will almost certainly break! By adapting to it now,
you'll gain compatibility and a sense of having done the electronic ecology
some good.
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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Change the way Perl modules are installed, update the default Perl to 5.18.
Before, we had:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
Now we have:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
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Remove all the bootstrap files (.bs) from the plists.
Starting with perl 5.20, they're not installed any more if empty,
and on FreeBSD, they're (always ?) empty.
PR: 190681
Submitted by: mat
Exp-Run by: antoine
Sponsored by: Absolight
Try and be consistent with what commands are silent and not in *install.
- MKDIR is silent
- ECHO is silent
- INSTALL_* are not silent
- CP/FIND/... are not silent
I fixed a few PORTDOCS misusage, I'll do a second pass.
With Hat: perl@
- Update to 3.17
6.52 Sat May 30 11:22:04 PDT 2009
Docs
* Documented CONFIGURE_REQUIRES (Alexandr Ciornii)
* Modnerized the docs for PREREQ_PM
6.51_04 Sun May 24 14:04:11 PDT 2009
Other
* All work on INSTALLHTML* has been reverted pending a fix for
[rt.cpan.org 45600]
- Take advantage of CPAN macro from bsd.sites.mk, change
${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN} to CPAN.
PR: ports/122674
Submitted by: Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
Reworked by: araujo (myself)
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
* reflect renaming on CPAN File-Spec to PathTools
+ add devel/p5-PathTools, remove devel/p5-File-Spec
+ update dependencies for all affected ports (make them unconditional),
bump PORTREVISION for these ports
module was renamed
* reflect renaming on CPAN PodParser to Pod-Parser
+ add textproc/p5-Pod-Parser, remove textproc/p5-PodParser
+ update dependencies for all affected ports (make them unconditional),
bump PORTREVISION for these ports
* for all changed ports make dependencies on File::Temp, Digest::MD5,
Storable unconditional
* remove 'CONFIGURE_ARGS= INSTALLDIRS=site' from Makefile's
(this variable is forced by bsd.port.mk now)
* update Class-Autouse to 1.17
* update POE-API-Hooks to 1.05
* make portlint happy (clean IGNORE, convert spaces to tabs and so on)
