svn commit: r332557 - head/lang/gcc

[David Naylor]

On Sunday, 3 November 2013 14:59:20 Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> >>   Update to GCC 4.6.4 which, among others, addresses document building
> >>   with new versions of texinfo. [1]
> > 
> > Do we still need lang/gcc and lang/gcc46?
> 
> Yes, since lang/gcc is the canonical version that should be used
> (and is pulled in by USE_GCC=yes, for example).  At that point
> lang/gcc46 will be the final release of GCC 4.6, lang/gcc47
> will track GCC 4.7 and lang/gcc will track GCC 4.7 releases.

Hi

Could you please explain why lang/gcc is not a meta-port tracking lang/gccXY 
as appropriate?  It sounds to me lang/gcc is more "stable" than lang/gccXY 
where lang/gccXY may track the tip of the branch?  

Regards
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