On 16 January 2018 at 05:33, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > The reasons for not having a 10.5 Intel builder are that no users should need > it (all users on 10.5 Intel should upgrade to 10.6) and the packages it would > create would take up disk space on all mirrors; we have already had one > MacPorts mirror leave because they could no longer accommodate our disk space > requirements.
Maybe we could one day provide "big size" and "small size" mirror sources. The mirrors which can only accommodate small size would then only mirror the latest two releases and make sure not to include any outdated distfiles whatsoever. I'm not saying this in support of 10.5, but unless we start removing 10.6 binaries and so on, our archives will just keep growing each year. The number of users who need the old binaries is relatively small compared to those who need one of the latest two, so it should be sufficient to serve those binaries from a smaller number of mirrors. Mojca
