Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:30:28 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r365725 - head/lang/gcc5 Message-ID: <20140825143028.GA79764@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1408251456030.3274@tuna.site> References: <201408231231.s7NCVa2w094830@svn.freebsd.org> <20140825144800.15a65f42@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <alpine.LSU.2.11.1408251456030.3274@tuna.site>
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 04:15:08PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better to move the port to lang/gcc50? Presumably > > the tools will also be gcc50, g++50 etc. right? > > No. :-) > > GCC changed the versioning scheme similar to FreeBSD: the next > major releases after GCC 4.8 and GCC 4.9 are going to be GCC 5, > GCC 6, GCC 7, and so forth. I think it makes it more similar to Java, Chrome, Firefox and others. One of the most stupid innovation ever seen. :( Luckily, FreeBSD remains relatively sane with dotted version numbers. ./danfe
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