On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Neil wrote: > > Should I perhaps open a ticket to standardize it a bit, or are people > > happy with the way things are now? > > Standardizing is a good idea. But discussion about the topic should > happen on the mailing list. Kay. > > One thought I had, which might make a bit of sense, is to just have a > > 'system' selection. Simple, intuitive, uniform, and roughly corresponds > > with things like the variant +system_x11. > > In case of gcc where the system provides more than one version just > 'system' is not sufficient. Also, the preferred gcc is the one from the > system/Xcode/Apple, that's why the versions from MacPorts have the > prefixed names. > On my system, only gcc-4.0 shows up in gcc_select (though in Xcode I have a selection of 5 different ones); how would I get others to show up in gcc_select? I suppose in that case, we could use "-system" (or "-builtin" or "-distrib" or something else) as a prefix/suffix. But I feel like it's counter-intuitive to have "python25-apple" be the built-in/system python, and "gcc40-apple" be something installed by MacPorts (which confused me for quite some time). And it seems inconsistent to label the MP's gcc's "mp-gcc40", but MP's Pythons a prefix-less "python25". (I suppose that last paragraph was a little redundant...)
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