"Official" MacPorts policy has been that we support the two most
recent versions of Mac OS. Which at the present means Tiger and
Leopard. That doesn't mean that we'll go out of our way to break older
versions, but that we don't promise we won't.
A particularly good example of why this is probably a good idea is the
current situation where we'd like to add additional support for
launchd and startupitems. Launchd wasn't available on Panther, and to
add new support for launchd startupitems will likely mean that ports
relying on the feature will gradually become inoperable on Panther,
where it will be too hard to maintain compatibility using
SystemStarter features. To continue supporting a the 3-year-old
Panther OS would mean restricting support for the newer versions, or
creating an overly-complicated implementation.
James
On Nov 22, 2007, at 6:16 AM, js wrote:
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/
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