From: David R. M. <dr...@fi...> - 2012-06-29 17:05:44
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On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: >> Dear Fink developers, >> >> At the time of the upgrade to 10.7, many fink -pm5123 packages were limited to Distribution: 10.7 only. >> Since we will make perl 5.1.23 available in 10.8, that restriction is no longer necessary or appropriate. >> On behalf of the fink-core team, I plan to alter such packages to expand the restriction to include 10.8. If >> the versions of the corresponding .info file in the 10.4 and 10.7 trees are identical, I will make the >> change in both places. >> >> Package maintainers will be notified after I have done this, which will happen over the next few days. >> >> -- Dave > > Dave, > Don't you mean to say that -pm5124 support needs to be added for 10.8? Or are you saying > we won't be using the system perl and will use a fink provided 5.12.3 on 10.8 instead? > Jack > 10.8 will have two perls available: the system perl, and a fink-proivded perl 5.12.3. The fink-provided one will be particularly useful for people upgrading from 10.7, who may have various -pm5123 packages installed already. |