Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 16:15:09 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Thierry Thomas <thierry@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, John Marino <marino@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r332557 - head/lang/gcc Message-ID: <20131209161509.55b7a820@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1312082252220.2197@tuna.site> References: <201311022320.rA2NKEcg089316@svn.freebsd.org> <20131103110034.GA80884@graf.pompo.net> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1311031456490.3029@tuna.site> <52765ED2.8080205@marino.st> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1312082252220.2197@tuna.site>
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On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 22:55:47 +0100 (CET) Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, John Marino wrote: >> However, food for thought: Moving to gcc47 and exposing the resulting >> package could have the benefit of others providing the fixes. I can >> tess you from experience these last 3 weeks that c++ breakage is very >> slow to fix so people will be waiting a long time. > > Luckily I had a great volunteer who has been helping with regular > packages, and the python crew has been responsive on the python issue > this upgrade ran into, but you have a very good point: Putting everyone > who wants to improve general infrastructure on the hook to fix all > broken (and not broken because the update is bad, but because the > port has issues) ports, is tough and discourages such changes. > > That's why the libmpc update has taken so long and now the lang/gcc > update to GCC 4.7 is taking so long (though that one appears to be > a matter of only four more weeks if we are lucky). I don't think anyone would complain if you did something like this: Do exp-run. If successful, commit; otherwise contact maintainers and ask for patches. Once you've collected a number of fixes do another exp-run. Repeat until you get a successful run. If maintainers don't respond in say 2 weeks mark their ports broken in your patch.
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