Macports tree cleanup

CHENG Gao chenggao at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 08:13:38 PDT 2007


*On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:03:06 +0200
* Anders F Björklund <afb at macports.org> climbed out of the dark hell and cried out:

> CHENG Gao wrote:
>
>> Another example is apple-gcc. Tree has apple-gcc33 build 1819, and
>> apple-gcc40 build 5363, while latest Tiger 10.4.10 has build 5367.
>> Should they be updated? Or even apple-gcc33 be removed?
>
> Apple has not released the source code for Mac OS X 10.4.10 or
> Xcode 2.4.1 (only 10.4.9 and 2.4.0), so gcc-5363 is the latest.
>
> gcc-3.3 is needed for Panther, which is still supported AFAIK...
> (although that might change next week or something, with Leopard)

Thanks for your explanation.

I used wrong package as example. I dont suggest to remove apple-gcc in
fact. I mean to clean up packages like tin-devel, which is definitely
outdated. Another example is emacs-devel 22.0.97. With Emacs 22.1
released this package is outdated and may confuse users of macports.



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