svn commit: r438577 - in head/lang/gcc46: . files

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:48:35AM +1000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > ...
> > Thank you, appreciated (GCC 4.6 is my default USE_GCC port).
> 
> I made a similar change to lang/gcc47 as well and will consider it
> for lang/gcc48 later after waiting for more feedback.

Nice, thanks (again ;-).

> Why are you on GCC 4.6, though?  My recommendation would be GCC 4.8
> as the absolute minimum, which was the default for an extended period,
> or GCC 4.9, which was the default for a bit less than half a year until
> the recent update to GCC 5.  Is there a particular reason against GCC 5
> (beyond perhaps wanting to let this settle a bit more)?

I always prefer older versions of software (especially larger beasts like
compilers, OOo, Qt/GTK, Firefox), because they usually are less bloated and
faster (and faster to build).  GCC 4.6 works fine when 4.2.1 does not cut
any more so why switch to a newer versions?  Unfortunately, only a fraction
of software steadily gets better with time, most introduce regressions and
break things in all sorts of ways (KDE 2/3 vs. 4/5, GTK+/GNOME 2 vs. 3 are
probably the most prominent examples).

./danfe