svn commit: r388648 - in head/net: asterisk11 asterisk13

Adam Weinberger adamw at adamw.org
Mon Nov 9 15:41:49 UTC 2015


> On 9 Nov, 2015, at 8:38, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:28:58AM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> What about "Build with current GCC (from ports)"?
>> With or without those parentheses.
>> 
>> Then people know that they're about to build/install a new compiler,
>> which is a large and time-consuming dependency.
> 
> Again, I advocate for s/current/modern/.  What is "current"?  It can be
> 4.9 for some people, 5.0 for others, and "why should I care" for everyone
> else. ;-)

I agree with everything you just said.

> I'm still hesitating about "Build with" vs. "Use".  I'm thinking of cases
> when GCC bits are required, but not exactly to build things.  At this point
> I'm more inclined towards "Use modern GCC (from ports)" but still not 100%
> confident it's the best wording.

I think the difference there is pedantic, and possibly more confusing. While
it is true that "build with" may not always be accurate, "use" is so generic
as to convey practically nothing.

My vote is for "Build with modern GCC (from ports)"

# Adam


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