MacPorts 2.3.0 has been released

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Saturday May 24 2014 16:14:35 Joshua Root wrote:
> The MacPorts Project is happy to announce that the 2.3.0 version has now
> been released. It is available via the usual methods:
...
> The list of what's new in 2.3.0 can be found in the ChangeLog [10].
...
> [10]
> <http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/branches/release_2_3/base/ChangeLog>

{{{
    - Support clang's -stdlib option explicitly using configure.cxx_stdlib
      rather than relying on its default value. This can be used to make
      MacPorts use libc++ on OS X < 10.9. (larryv in r110519)
}}}

What's the interest of doing that - if libc++ on >= 10.9 makes it all but impossible to use gcc on C++ code, doesn't the same (or rather, the inverse) apply on OS X < 10.9?

R