[csw-users] Outdated packages e.g. GCC 4.3 instead of 4.6 - reason? ; Suggestion new packages?

[Victor Hooi]

heya,

This is more of a curiosity question - but I was wondering why the OpenCSW
GCC package is at version 4.3.3, and not version 4.6.1?

I noticed Sunfreeware is also at GCC 4.3, so was wondering if there a
specific limitation on Solaris that precluded GCC 4.6 from being used?

There's also a few other packages that are a couple versions behind:

   - Wget 1.11.2 -> version 1.12 (September 2009)
   - Cmake 2.8.2 -> version 2.8.5 (July 2011)
   - Mercurial 1.8.4 -> version 1.9 (July 2011)
   - Ruby 1.8 -> version 1.9.2 (February 2011)
   - Puppet 2.6.9 -> version 2.7.1 (June 2011) - but 2.7.2 should be out
   soon, I believe.

Is there a mechanism where people can flag these packages to let maintainers
know? Or if there's a reason they're being held back where should we look to
find out the reasons?

Secondly, is there also a mechanism by which we might suggest packages to
add to OpenCSW, or vote on them even? Or is the mailing list the best place
for those discussions?

For example, two packages I'd like to nominate are ccze and Python 3.

Cheers,
Victor
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