Not MacPorts specifically but that has been my experience with
numerous software packages.
Michael David Crawford, Baritone
mdcrawf...@gmail.com
One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>
> 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 withdrawn.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.
>
>
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