From owner-svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 3 14:16:37 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626B222A; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-x236.google.com (mail-wg0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CDED20DF; Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f54.google.com with SMTP id c11so1191141wgh.9 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 06:16:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type; bh=Fw15gbsrCT/t1JdVg227wnVDv352EyKmX7db8/YhiX8=; b=GcXXNHGJildBV0fhQf1/nBQ9ZJm/T2WJUtvJawUGus/NXC/hJaItkmTpokCdIUiu2b oXDi8AwJOkIJc0VQcb66IF52vIo1NHRLpAdoq7ZoZTrb6qTyRv+GEuGnMWVdHPOrC7vs 3al0z0WI4RZ11k/u1FV5C4P5oQKzvXugxb/cMHn/L9QFYnGKjC69c6UlEf95GoZf3Kew ru3VRp2DRo3pqZLB4wgnM6ZQdKcg3480zbIIpvukddQE2Ga7UXRVhv5ROBwMg4NKvAgC K8Nb5nBxNekF5cMAdfY4g9NIRj3nI7jJxrF/uP00m8HktF4v93/Y+R0vgUBqy4RPMtew 1HXw== X-Received: by 10.180.94.38 with SMTP id cz6mr8947814wib.27.1383488194765; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 06:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.dg ([197.87.211.246]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ft19sm27208428wic.5.2013.11.03.06.16.30 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 03 Nov 2013 06:16:33 -0800 (PST) From: David Naylor To: Gerald Pfeifer Subject: Re: svn commit: r332557 - head/lang/gcc Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 16:16:23 +0300 Message-ID: <12931610.t88EYPI6ck@dragon.dg> User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (FreeBSD/9.2-STABLE; KDE/4.10.5; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <201311022320.rA2NKEcg089316@svn.freebsd.org> <20131103110034.GA80884@graf.pompo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart16278145.gL1CocQq3Z"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Thierry Thomas , svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Gerald Pfeifer , ports-committers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 14:16:37 -0000 --nextPart16278145.gL1CocQq3Z Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" On Sunday, 3 November 2013 14:59:20 Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Thierry Thomas wrote: > >> Update to GCC 4.6.4 which, among others, addresses document building > >> with new versions of texinfo. [1] > > > > Do we still need lang/gcc and lang/gcc46? > > Yes, since lang/gcc is the canonical version that should be used > (and is pulled in by USE_GCC=yes, for example). At that point > lang/gcc46 will be the final release of GCC 4.6, lang/gcc47 > will track GCC 4.7 and lang/gcc will track GCC 4.7 releases. Hi Could you please explain why lang/gcc is not a meta-port tracking lang/gccXY as appropriate? It sounds to me lang/gcc is more "stable" than lang/gccXY where lang/gccXY may track the tip of the branch? Regards --nextPart16278145.gL1CocQq3Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.21 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAlJ2WroACgkQUaaFgP9pFrL66wCdG6hCsgW14HoXXVYsReN7Yshr uBwAn3FrmeGta8saNc91Q12/h6I2pEMW =KKqQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart16278145.gL1CocQq3Z--