Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:44:15 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Antoine Brodin <antoine@freebsd.org>, owner-ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r347539 - in head: biology/genpak biology/rasmol cad/chipmunk databases/typhoon databases/xmbase-grok devel/asl devel/flick devel/happydoc devel/ixlib devel/p5-Penguin-Easy editors/axe ... Message-ID: <5334555F.70806@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <8db20343037cfedce85801350a12fe4d@shatow.net> References: <201403082226.s28MQMtI079354@svn.freebsd.org> <20140327111602.GA57802@FreeBSD.org> <CAALwa8kUkOWQ9fW2VpxsqA97B3antHGob=Hn35H%2BS93Kc1%2Bfdw@mail.gmail.com> <20140327130726.GD93483@FreeBSD.org> <8db20343037cfedce85801350a12fe4d@shatow.net>
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On 3/27/2014 17:39, Bryan Drewery wrote: > > I agree completely with you. I don't understand why we remove ports that > are working perfectly fine, except where broken or no upstream and there > are security concerns. As a user I hate this. I still want older gcc and > tcl. Portage has *32* versions of GCC while we have 4. For me, picking a > development platform is all about which packages are available to test > the portability of my code. To be pedantic, you are neglecting my work: lang/gnat-aux (expiring) lang/gcc47-aux lang/gcc49-aux lang/gnatdroid-armv5 lang/gnatdroid-armv7 so that's 5 more right off the bat. And they differ from the vanilla lang/gccXX, otherwise they could be combined. And as somebody who can speak to it, maintaining GCC ports is quite demanding. they are not easy. There's a pragmatic argument to be made here. Also older gccs are hard to keep running (see 2.95, 3.4, etc) John
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