[csw-users] Outdated packages e.g. GCC 4.3 instead of 4.6 - reason?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

[Paul Lanken]

blastwave has 4.6.1 I think .. at least that is what the GCC site says

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Victor Hooi <victorhooi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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