On Apr 16, 2012, at 20:38, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > Rather than hardcode every version of gcc and clang into base, we should > support these configure.compiler options dynamically. My tcl-foo isn't quite > good enough to easily do that, but hopefully somebody has the magic > necessary. I just thought I'd throw it out there since the list of compilers > will only grow over the coming years, and it sucks to have to wait for a new > version of base to depend on a new compiler "the right way".
That's an idea. But I think we can also continue to use things the way they are. We just have to be a little quicker about adding new options to base. For example, I just added gcc47 and gcc48 to base for MacPorts 2.1.0 beta 1, though gcc47 had been available already for a long time (as a pre-release). We should add a compiler to base as soon as the port is added, and not wait for it to become a final release. This also relies on us not waiting too long between releases of base, which isn't a bad idea anyway. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
