On Jun 8, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>
> Daniel is correct that we should be encouraging users to upgrade to OS X
> versions that receive security updates from Apple. However, some old machines
> (e.g. PowerPC) machines cannot run newer versions. When the alternative is to
> throw out an otherwise working computer, I would rather that old computer
> continue to be usefully employed than taking up space in a landfill.
I would recommend that people who intend to make use of older hardware should
do so with OSes that continue to get security updates (and/or should make sure
those older machines aren't connected to a network where they can do damage to
other machines/networks).
> Giving developers having older Macs access to newer systems is a less
> pressing need, in my opinion. The problem will fix itself when such
> developers eventually upgrade to newer hardware. And we have buildbots to
> discover problems on such systems. Also, according to the WWDC2014 keynote,
> fully half of Mac users are running Mavericks. So if a port you maintain has
> a problem only on Mavericks, chances are if you write to the macports-dev
> mailing list, another developer will be able to help take a look at the
> problem.
It was nice back in the opendarwin days to have a shell account on machines
with the two most recent releases of Mac OS X (or their opendarwin equivalents).
--
Daniel J. Luke
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