> On Jan 16, 2018, at 8:16 AM, Ken Cunningham <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jan 16 09:49:32, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> 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. >> >> That depends on the upstream I guess. >> You don't want your software to run on MacOS 10.5.8? >> >> I understand that some things have changed massively >> (audio output across 10.5.8 - 10.13.2, anyone?), >> but basic POSIX C should still work the same. >> >> I am stuck with 10.5.8 on this particular machine anyway. >> >> Jan >> > > > Are you sure about that? Even my most ancient intel machines, 32bit, can go > up past there. > > K
I just checked: a Core Duo is limited to 10.5.8 only if it has less than 1GB of RAM, but can run 10.6.8 otherwise. Marius -- Marius Schamschula
