On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> If anything, I think MacPorts ought to be shielding users from Apple’s use
>> of tooling updates to bitrot working software that happens to not be aligned
>> with their release-to-release platform priorities.
>
> The best way to "shield users" is to fix or remove broken and unmaintained
> ports.
Unlike post-iOS7 Apple, I don’t think platform vendors serve their users by
capriciously breaking working software. If the apple-gcc42 port — or any other
— works, then I see no reason to forbid developers from using it.
If, in the future, it ceases to work, I see no reason to forbid interested
parties from fixing it.
-landonf
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