BTW, Does "Official support" mean anything? Just another name of priority?
On Nov 22, 2007 11:48 PM, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "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/ > >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > > macports-users mailing list > > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users