On 2022-01-13 at 16:26:01 UTC-0500 (Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:26:01 -0600) Will Senn <will.s...@gmail.com> is rumored to have said: [...]
My question for y'all goes like this - How long will macports continue to "work" on Mojave?
No one can actually give a fixed date for that which you could reasonably rely upon.
MacPorts still has support for Tiger. That's 10 releases older than Mojave. It is unlikely that the aggregate 'vision' of the people doing the work of keeping MP going will change so much as to drop Mojave before it is simply impossible to continue to support it. If I recall correctly, dropping Panther only happened because the last Panther-capable machine available to the project died. Speaking only as a long-time user and observer of MacPorts, I would be surprised if Mojave support went away in this decade.
With that said, "support" in MacPorts' core is not the only thing to be concerned with. One thing I found running Snow Leopard until last February on a 32bit-only CoreDuo was that support in ports I was using or tried to use was slowly crumbling over time, often beyond anything MacPorts could work around. The biggest headaches weren't even rooted in hardware or OS version per se, but in the toolchain (gcc/clang/etc.) and runtime (libgcc/libcxx/etc.) evolution. Re-bootstrapping my whole MacPorts world never became impossible, but by the end it was a multi-day festivity involving building multiple toolchains and learning obscure command-line options for port. It may never become impossible for to keep using MacPorts on Mojave, but it may end up taking so much babysitting that you'd rather not. I hope that's a long time, because my personal machines are staying there for some time as well.
-- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire
