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Re: GCC version zoo



Tobias Nygren wrote:
> Can somebody who is clued in please explain the reasons why we need GCC
> 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 and 4.9 in pkgsrc, why 4.9 does not work for
> everyone and finally make an educated guess if these reasons hold true
> for the newly release GCC 5 series and thus if we should create
> lang/gcc51 right away or if lang/gcc5 (which would eventually get
> updated to 5.2) could be acceptable.

Please keep these GCC releases, I make use of them - not daily but
occasionally I test things under various GCC and it fits my needs.

My only concern is with gcc, please rename it to gcc2.

Please import GCC 5.1 as gcc51 and make room for 5.2 (gcc52).


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