Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:17:18 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r438577 - in head/lang/gcc46: . files Message-ID: <20170417151718.GD79849@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.21.1704171045030.4604@anthias.pfeifer.com> References: <201704150639.v3F6dmFD073186@repo.freebsd.org> <20170415125907.GA97090@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.LNX.2.21.1704171045030.4604@anthias.pfeifer.com>
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:48:35AM +1000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2017, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > ... > > Thank you, appreciated (GCC 4.6 is my default USE_GCC port). > > I made a similar change to lang/gcc47 as well and will consider it > for lang/gcc48 later after waiting for more feedback. Nice, thanks (again ;-). > Why are you on GCC 4.6, though? My recommendation would be GCC 4.8 > as the absolute minimum, which was the default for an extended period, > or GCC 4.9, which was the default for a bit less than half a year until > the recent update to GCC 5. Is there a particular reason against GCC 5 > (beyond perhaps wanting to let this settle a bit more)? I always prefer older versions of software (especially larger beasts like compilers, OOo, Qt/GTK, Firefox), because they usually are less bloated and faster (and faster to build). GCC 4.6 works fine when 4.2.1 does not cut any more so why switch to a newer versions? Unfortunately, only a fraction of software steadily gets better with time, most introduce regressions and break things in all sorts of ways (KDE 2/3 vs. 4/5, GTK+/GNOME 2 vs. 3 are probably the most prominent examples). ./danfe
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