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[John Marino]

On 3/27/2014 17:39, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> 
> I agree completely with you. I don't understand why we remove ports that
> are working perfectly fine, except where broken or no upstream and there
> are security concerns. As a user I hate this. I still want older gcc and
> tcl. Portage has *32* versions of GCC while we have 4. For me, picking a
> development platform is all about which packages are available to test
> the portability of my code.

To be pedantic, you are neglecting my work:
  lang/gnat-aux (expiring)
  lang/gcc47-aux
  lang/gcc49-aux
  lang/gnatdroid-armv5
  lang/gnatdroid-armv7

so that's 5 more right off the bat.  And they differ from the vanilla
lang/gccXX, otherwise they could be combined.

And as somebody who can speak to it, maintaining GCC ports is quite
demanding.  they are not easy.  There's a pragmatic argument to be made
here.  Also older gccs are hard to keep running (see 2.95, 3.4, etc)

John