On Nov 12, 2015, at 6:55 AM, Michael David Crawford wrote: > There have been plenty of times that the only Mac available to me for > development has been my mother's Tiger G4 iMac. I was at least able > to install a PowerPC backport of Firefox. > > What was most upsetting to me when I used it was that I often had to > build my own tools from source, because the powerpc binaries had been > withdrawn.
Not sure if you were talking about MacPorts or other projects, but MacPorts has never offered PowerPC binaries. We started offering binaries with OS X 10.6, for x86_64 only. > It's one thing to stop supporting a product, quite another to actively > prevent its use. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
