Hi, I am not sure what you are complaining about. Version 2.56.3, whilst not the absolute latest version a pretty up to date rust based version, is already used on Darwin 10 and newer. Your mail below seems to imply the old C version is used everywhere, which just isn't the case. What am I missing here ?
Chris > On 10 Oct 2023, at 6:48 pm, Perry E. Metzger <[email protected]> wrote: > > See the following thread: > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/20744 — but to summarize, > Mascguy does not want to update librsvg to a safe / modern one because > ancient versions of MacOS can't support Rust. > > So I don't want to be a pain in the neck, but I have little interest in > MacPorts if the point is to preserve compatibility with MacOS 10.5 at the > expense of having the thousands of users of current Macs and current MacOS > have a dangerously insecure version of a basic SVG graphics library that > other things depend on. > > (The upstream librsvg maintainers have washed their hands of the old C > version and don't support it any more, and for good reason. The Rust version > of the library provides a far more secure codebase.) > > I don't know how other people feel here, but I don't work on MacPorts because > I like retrocomputing, but rather because I want to use Unix tools on my > modern Macs. > > If we're all on the same page that the priority is current MacOS users, then > we need to make sure that policy is well understood by all and we need to > update ports that are being held back for the benefit of people using an OS > from 2007. > > If the consensus is that we prioritize ancient versions of MacOS with three > users (or sometimes none) over the experience the bulk of the users have, > that's fine, and I'll accept it, but then I'm switching to Brew, and I will > advise others to do the same, and will explain that current versions of > MacPorts cannot be trusted to have safe software because the people involved > prioritize support for ancient versions of the operating system. > > I will accept whatever the consensus is. > > Perry > >
