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 * Difficulty: Medium to Hard
 * Languages: Tcl, C++, QMake
 * Potential mentors: mcalhoun, michaelld
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+==== Make Blacklisting MacPorts Compilers Easier ==== #blacklisting
+Not all compilers work with all ports.
+For example, a port may require [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11 C++11], which is not supported by GCC 4.2, which is the default compilers on older macOS systems.
+MacPorts has a mechanism to blacklist compilers that do not meet the port's requirements.
+Currently, blacklisting a range of compilers is very easy (e.g. `compiler.blacklist {clang < 500}` ensures that the Clang compiler supports C++11).
+However, this only works for compilers provided by Xcode.
+Ports can also use compilers provided by MacPorts.
+It would be nice, for example, to be able to have something like `compiler.blacklist {macports-clang < 6.0}`.
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+* Difficulty: Easy to Medium
+* Languages: Tcl
+* Potential mentors: mcalhoun
 
 ==== Announcements distributed over the ports tree ==== #news
 
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