On Sep 29, 2018, at 02:19, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a chance that we add a new cxx14 (and cxx17) PortGroup, at > least as an intermediate step before a better solution is worked out. > > I admit that I don't like zillion portgroup to achieve basically the > same thing (cxx11 cxx14 cxx17 cxx20 ...), but what I like even less is > every single Portfile randomly adding their own selection of > blacklisted compilers, more often than not with lots of flaws, so it > becomes impossible to tell after a while whether a compiler is in fact > blacklisted because the software would not build with it (for whatever > random reason) or because the author just accidentally blacklisted a > compiler for which he thought it would not support C++14. > > And then there are cases when a ticket or pull request would be open > for so long that some blacklisted compilers would already become > obsolete/removed by the time the changes get merged :) :) :) > > I'm asking because Ryan just pointed out lots of flaws in compiler > blacklisting. It looks as if every single port out of the three > committed in the same batch had a different flaw in C++14 > blacklisting. I believe we're intending to address this by https://github.com/macports/macports-base/pull/88 People should test that PR and report any problems.