On Apr 12, 2018, at 13:14, db wrote: > On 12 Apr 2018, at 18:52, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> 1. MacPorts does not have a method of declaring that a port does not build >> on a version of macOS. Such a feature is being discussed: >> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15712 >> In the absence of this feature, we write pre-fetch blocks that manually >> check the OS version and print an error. > > Opened 10 years ago. Fat chance, I guess.
You may have noticed that discussion about the issue resumed 4 weeks ago, and a milestone was assigned. >> 3. There is no plan to have any automated process add such blocks. > > Precisely that I wanted to know. I'd like the powers that be to consider this > — delivering portfiles that won't build (in certain platforms) doesn't make > much sense. The method by which we want to accomplish that is the above-referenced ticket.
