RFC: Renaming GCC ports and variants

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Wed Oct 1 12:15:20 PDT 2014


On Oct 1, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Frank Schima <mf2k at macports.org> wrote:

> On Oct 1, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Sean Farley <sean at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> We really should be consistent then. I personally don't care what the
>> new name is but we should either have clangX.Y / gccX.Y or clangXY /
>> gccXY.
> 
> I say we use gccX.Y. Just renaming gcc ports (for now) won’t be too hard. 

Except that base automatically adds dependencies on `gccXY` depending on configure.compiler, so renaming them requires some sort of migration strategy. Either we wait until a new MacPorts release, or we jury-rig some sort of stub-port thing.

vq


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