On 16/01/18 09:14, Jan Stary wrote:
On Jan 14 21:47:43, [email protected] wrote:
On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote:
A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel
The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, you should
update at least to 10.6... the 10.5 buildbot exists because that is the last
OS supporting PPC machines.
There is no special reason for *not* having the 10.5/intel bot
available except that the demand for it is pretty low and each
buildbot consumes some resources and nobody bothered adding it. If a
lot of users actually requested it (and ideally someone provided
additional hardware resources), I guess it could be added, but this
has not been the case so far.
Out of curiosity, is there some statistics on these demands
(in particular showing the low demand for 10.5.8)? I don't
dispute it, just wondering how minor 10.5.8/{intel,ppc} is nowadays.
I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some
feedback about problems on that platform, but also because any PPC
machine is super slow and MacPorts is often the most important part
that actually makes those machines still usable. In most cases the
port would build on 10.5/i386 if it builds on both 10.5/ppc and 10.6.
Building on more platforms surely is a benefit in itself,
exposing bugs that only show up on some archs.
Building on ancient OSes like 10.5 does not really help in that regard,
as its highly unlike any issues that come up are anything upstream
maintainers of packages would have an interest in fixing.
Jan
