Re: [120845] trunk/dports

2014-06-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 9, 2014, at 4:14 PM, mcalh...@macports.org wrote: > Revision > 120845 > Author > mcalh...@macports.org > Date > 2014-06-09 14:14:20 -0700 (Mon, 09 Jun 2014) > Log Message > > Revision bump for icu update (r120843). > Fixes #43959. > --- trunk/dports/games/openttd/Portfile 2014-06-0

Re: [120684] trunk/dports/devel/srecord/Portfile

2014-06-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 9, 2014, at 10:37 AM, David Strubbe wrote: > Why is using a patchfile instead of reinplace preferable? If reinplace fails, it is silent, replacing nothing, and proceeds to the next command. This is https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15514 So although the reinplace may do what you want tod

Re: [120684] trunk/dports/devel/srecord/Portfile

2014-06-09 Thread David Strubbe
Hi Ryan, Why is using a patchfile instead of reinplace preferable? David On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:30 PM, m...@macports.org wrote: > > > Revision > > 120684 > > Author > > m...@macports.org > > Date > > 2014-06-05 10:30:25 -0700 (Thu, 05 Jun 2

Re: Access to machines with old OS versions/architectures, like 10.4, 10.5, ... ppc

2014-06-09 Thread
Mojca Miklavec , Ryan Schmidt , >> I would recommend that people who intend to make use of older >hardware should do so with OSes that continue to get security updates > >But then again, given the low number of such users it's probably a lot >more profitable to write malware for XP than it is for

Re: Access to machines with old OS versions/architectures, like 10.4, 10.5, ... ppc

2014-06-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I have old PowerPC machines that I use for this purpose. The problem is not > hardware; additional PowerPC machines can be acquired if they are useful to > anyone. The problem is getting developers (both upstream and within MacPorts) > to fix

Re: Access to machines with old OS versions/architectures, like 10.4, 10.5, ... ppc

2014-06-09 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jun 8, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > Daniel is correct that we should be encouraging users to upgrade to OS X > versions that receive security updates from Apple. However, some old machines > (e.g. PowerPC) machines cannot run newer versions. When the alternative is to > throw o