This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Mac OS X 10.4
Tiger. It's had a good run, but it's long been getting harder and harder
to support. Upstream projects are understandably reluctant to add fixes
for it. The very few users who open Trac tickets for Tiger issues are
opening them considerably faster than they can be fixed. Maybe it's time
to call it quits.
10.4 is of course already unsupported in the sense that we have no
expectation that maintainers should fix any problems on OS versions
older than current-2. So practically speaking, this would mean removing
all workarounds for 10.4 from base in the next major MacPorts release,
closing all 10.4 specific tickets as "wontfix", and beginning the
process of removing workarounds for 10.4 from ports as they are updated.
What does everyone think?
- Josh
