base release schedule

[Joshua Root]

On 2014-3-5 07:55 , Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> In https://trac.macports.org/ticket/42699, Adam pointed out to me that llvm-3.5 isn't building for him on Mavericks with released base due to the lack of -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names.  Additionally, llvm-3.5 requires trunk base to install on Mountain Lion and earlier.

The current release does have headerpad_max_install_names in its default
ldflags.

> There are also a bunch of other hacks throughout dports for libc++ that will benefit from the next release of base.
> 
> According to http://trac.macports.org/roadmap, 2.3.0 is scheduled for June, but I'm wondering if we could move that up.  Specifically, what are we waiting for?

June is more of an "at the latest" date. Currently waiting a little to
see if trunk users find problems with the recent changes. Then we'd
normally be in beta for a few weeks before a release.

> Would it be worthwhile to instead cut a 2.2.x with the configure.cxx_stdlib and -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names changes?

Probably not.

- Josh