On Nov 16, 2009, at 13:38, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2009-11-17 06:00, Daniel J. Luke wrote: >> On Nov 14, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> and the small number of users still using Panther didn't justify the >>> developer resources to restore it. >> >> While that's true, it reads more like a company with dedicated developers >> making a decision. >> >> If there were lots of people in the community who wanted to take >> responsibility for Panther (testing and patching things so they continue to >> work there), I think it's very likely that that work would be integrated ... > > Absolutely. We certainly don't want to discourage anyone from doing just > that if they think it's worthwhile. However, nobody has stepped up, so > those of us who are maintaining things are just directing our efforts as > we think best.
Right. Note that I and others have now been removing darwin 7 bits from portfiles. If Panther support were re-added to MacPorts base, those bits would have to be located and re-added too. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
