On Oct 1, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote:
> 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… +1 It’s long overdue that we drop support for legacy (not supported by Apple) systems. -Frank _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
