Re: RFC: Drop PPC support

2014-10-02 Thread Takeshi Enomoto
Sean, > I think that's fine but as a policy (meaning: written as a FAQ or a > documentation of some kind) the first answer for PPC tickets should be: > you're on your own. Agreed. > If a macports dev wants to help out personally, then sure, go for it. OK. I wanted to make sure that dropping ppc

Re: RFC: Drop PPC support

2014-10-02 Thread Sean Farley
Takeshi Enomoto writes: >> Historically we officially support the current and previous Mac OS X release >> (while not doing anything to on-purpose break older releases / being willing >> to accept patches to make things work on older releases). > > If we are not going to change this policy, > P

Re: RFC: Drop PPC support

2014-10-02 Thread Takeshi Enomoto
> Historically we officially support the current and previous Mac OS X release > (while not doing anything to on-purpose break older releases / being willing > to accept patches to make things work on older releases). If we are not going to change this policy, PPC is no longer supported. It is u

Re: RFC: Drop PPC support

2014-10-01 Thread Sean Farley
Bradley Giesbrecht writes: > On Oct 1, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Sean Farley wrote: > >> As discussed in the MPI thread, PPC is very old and is causing quite the >> development burden. I would be in favor of discussing how much effort we >> really want to spend supporting them (similar to supporting li

Re: RFC: Drop PPC support

2014-10-01 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Oct 1, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Sean Farley wrote: > As discussed in the MPI thread, PPC is very old and is causing quite the > development burden. I would be in favor of discussing how much effort we > really want to spend supporting them (similar to supporting libstdc++ on > Mavericks). > > We c

Re: RFC: Drop PPC support

2014-10-01 Thread Frank Schima
On Oct 1, 2014, at 12:01 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Sean Farley wrote: >> >> As discussed in the MPI thread, PPC is very old and is causing quite the >> development burden. I would be in favor of discussing how much effort we >> really want to spend supporting them

Re: RFC: Drop PPC support

2014-10-01 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Sean Farley wrote: > > As discussed in the MPI thread, PPC is very old and is causing quite the > development burden. I would be in favor of discussing how much effort we > really want to spend supporting them (similar to supporting libstdc++ on > Mavericks). > > We c

RFC: Drop PPC support

2014-10-01 Thread Sean Farley
As discussed in the MPI thread, PPC is very old and is causing quite the development burden. I would be in favor of discussing how much effort we really want to spend supporting them (similar to supporting libstdc++ on Mavericks). We could tag some known version of the MacPorts svn tree for PPC us