Older MacOS versions lack browsers that support TLSv1.2, and other enhancements
that allow them to work comfortably in the current world. Cameron Kaiser has
been dutifully maintaining a fork of Firefox for a decade that works nicely on
PPC Macs 10.4 and 10.5, and keeps it remarkably up to date w
Hi,
Being ’niche’ in itself is no reason to not include something in MacPorts, so
that shouldn’t be a concern. We have plenty of ‘niche’ ports already, which is
partly what makes MacPorts better than the alternatives ;)
If the new ports build ‘normally’ like any other, then why not have them i
On 2018-10-11, at 10:05 AM, Christopher Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Being ’niche’ in itself is no reason to not include something in MacPorts, so
> that shouldn’t be a concern. We have plenty of ‘niche’ ports already, which
> is partly what makes MacPorts better than the alternatives ;)
>
> If t
Hi,
> Apparently, gcc48 can produce some zero-length N_SECTs that error out in the
> default strip command but don't need to. Cameron made them warnings instead
> (see below). We are reaching the limits of my knowledge about this issue
> right about now …
OK. Looking at that patch, because al
Hi,
A couple other thoughts…
What platforms do you see this being useful on ? I know that older platforms,
but newer than 10.4, also have issues with SSL/TLS support. Presumably this
would also be useful on these ? 10.6 ? 10.7 ?
Related to the above what is the rationale for forcing the use of
On 2018-10-11, at 10:38 AM, Christopher Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple other thoughts…
>
> What platforms do you see this being useful on ? I know that older platforms,
> but newer than 10.4, also have issues with SSL/TLS support. Presumably this
> would also be useful on these ? 10.6 ? 10.7
> On 11 Oct 2018, at 6:51 pm, Ken Cunningham
> wrote:
>
>
> On 2018-10-11, at 10:38 AM, Christopher Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A couple other thoughts…
>>
>> What platforms do you see this being useful on ? I know that older
>> platforms, but newer than 10.4, also have issues with SSL/TL
On Oct 11, 2018, at 12:29, Christopher Jones wrote:
>> Apparently, gcc48 can produce some zero-length N_SECTs that error out in the
>> default strip command but don't need to. Cameron made them warnings instead
>> (see below). We are reaching the limits of my knowledge about this issue
>> ri
