On 2012-3-30 09:59 , Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So my conclusion is that we should create a Distribution file and run >> productbuild after generating an intermediate flat package, but only on >> 10.6+. > > Seems reasonable. Given that Apple is also about to ship 10.8, one has to > wonder just how much future 10.5- has for, well, anyone. Yes, there are all > of those PPC machines still out there (I gave away my Dual G5 years ago and > apparently it's still working and providing good service to the recipient) > but, ultimately, they're on death row and probably surviving mostly for > dedicated tasks for which macports is not necessarily a component in any case. > > In other words, I'd make the Distribution file creation item the default and > simply disable it when not detected in /usr/bin on the old machines but not > go out of your way to make those "less capable flat packages" necessarily > useful for anything. People can still, on Leopard and before, build stuff > from source and I think that's more than good enough.
Sure. I'm just going to make package.flat default to 'no' on 10.5-. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
