On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Sean Farley <s...@macports.org> wrote:
>
> As discussed in the MPI thread, PPC is very old and is causing quite the
> development burden. I would be in favor of discussing how much effort we
> really want to spend supporting them (similar to supporting libstdc++ on
> Mavericks).
>
> We could tag some known version of the MacPorts svn tree for PPC users
> and be done with it. This would allow us to concentrate on other issues.
>
> We could also talk about how far of an OS back do we really want to
> support. Tiger and Leopard are decrepit. We don't even have buildbots
> for PPC nor OSes below Lion.
>
> Should we finally drop some of this older stuff?
>
> Comments welcomed.
Historically we officially support the current and previous Mac OS X release
(while not doing anything to on-purpose break older releases / being willing to
accept patches to make things work on older releases).
I think that's a reasonable policy.
We have made some effort to support PPC machines for a while longer than that,
which was nice, but we probably shouldn't be doing anymore.
I don't think we should provide installers/builds for anything other than the
supported Mac OS X releases - and I also think we should make sure we're only
supporting OS releases that are currently getting security updates from
upstream...
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Daniel J. Luke
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