Sadly, there's no way to figure out how many OS X 10.3 users exist. This number is probably the most important one to take into account deciding whether MacPorts should support OS X 10.3 or not. Assuming Apple supports OSs as long as there're fair amount of users, this might be a good idea to support MacPorts on OSs Apple officially supports. (10.3 - 10.5?)
Letting Apple decidess it might be a better On Nov 20, 2007 7:30 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2007, at 14:02, Weissmann Markus wrote: > > > 10.3 is not officially supported anymore*) and I do not even have > > access to a 10.3 box. > > I'll happily add any patch for 10.3 that does not conflict with > > 10.4 or 10.5 but I don't have a way of testing it. > > > > > > -Markus > > > > *) which doesn't mean anyone will break stuff on purpose > > > This is the first I've heard of 10.3 not being supported anymore. > > Historically MacPorts has supported the current Mac OS X release and > the previous one, and granted, 10.5 was just released. But a lot of > ports aren't working so great on Leopard right now [1]. If a decision > is made to drop 10.3 support, I would hope that we would wait until > the 10.5 bug reports stop bucketing in and we can honestly say that > the MacPorts experience on 10.5 is at least as good as it was on > 10.4. And we are currently far from that. > > Note that the new guide [2] does not seem to indicate what versions > of Mac OS X are supported. It should so indicate, fairly near the top. > > [1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/query? > status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&summary=% > 7Eleopard&order=priority > > [2] http://geeklair.net/new_macports_guide/ > > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
