On 2017-10-08 00:18, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2017-10-8 08:56 , Kurt Hindenburg wrote: >> Hello, from the guide and the source code, it appears that the Portfile >> platforms variable is not used at all. As such, I’m unclear why lint >> says it is an error to not have it. Regardless, if there’s no use for >> it now or in the future, I could put together a PR to remove it from >> base. Then at a later time, it could be removed from Portfiles. > > It is informational like several other variables such as categories. It > has been proposed to extend platforms to indicate which OS version a > port does and does not work on, and use that to skip builds on the > buildbot as well as replace all the manual 'return -code error "This > port doesn't work on Tiger"' sort of stuff.
I agree with Joshua. The platforms option should eventually be used to get rid of the pre-fetch phases that are now in use to catch unsupported macOS releases. https://trac.macports.org/ticket/15712 Rainer
