svn commit: r332557 - head/lang/gcc

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, John Marino wrote:
> However, food for thought: Moving to gcc47 and exposing the resulting
> package could have the benefit of others providing the fixes.  I can
> tess you from experience these last 3 weeks that c++ breakage is very
> slow to fix so people will be waiting a long time.

Luckily I had a great volunteer who has been helping with regular 
packages, and the python crew has been responsive on the python issue 
this upgrade ran into, but you have a very good point:  Putting everyone
who wants to improve general infrastructure on the hook to fix all 
broken (and not broken because the update is bad, but because the
port has issues) ports, is tough and discourages such changes.

That's why the libmpc update has taken so long and now the lang/gcc
update to GCC 4.7 is taking so long (though that one appears to be
a matter of only four more weeks if we are lucky).

Gerald