> On May 13, 2017, at 2:58 PM, René J. V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Christopher Jones wrote: >> such that I am not really sure >> its warranted to expend a lot of effort to keep gcc alive on OSX, when > > There appear to be quite a few ports that use/expect gcc, though. For some > that > is just to get a Fortran compiler, but if memory serves me well you cannot > just > build/install gfortran with gcc and g++. Even without official maintainer the > ports are kept up-to-date, and I'd argue that we could just as well add an > option to make the C and C++ compilers a viable alternative. As a variant, at > least for the time being.
Ouch! Let’s put that into stronger terms: Christopher Jones, your comment is full of hubris and exceedingly pretentious. To suggest not supporting GCC on OS X/macOS is not only bad policy, it is dangerous and reflects profound ignorance. -AM _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
