Making +gcc47 the default variant (was: [103405] trunk/dports/science/miriad/Portfile)

[Frank Schima]

On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:

> On Feb 25, 2013, at 11:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> gcc45 should be the default, per:
>> 
>> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#gcc
>> 
>> Though we can certainly begin a discussion about switching everything to defaulting to gcc47 instead.
> 
> Might as well.
> 
> What do folks think about changing the default compiler variant to +gcc47?

I think this is a great idea. gcc 4.5 is pretty old. I personally already add +gcc47 to my default variants for everyone where I work and it seems to work just fine. The biggest problem is making sure all ports with a gcc4X variant have a gcc47 variant. 


Cheers!
Frank