Hi,
Joshua Root wrote:
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.
I use MacPorts on 10.4 for basic stuff, it works and is very useful. Of
course I have no high expectations, since I actively work on 10.5 and
there it is already a big hurdle...
However having basics working: subversions, git, openssl, gnumake and
such is of high usage. Only way e.g. to get repository access.
maybe some kind of restricted port selection?
Riccardo
