Hi,
I've been using macports as my goto unix environment on my laptop for
the better part of two years and I've grown to love it. I used to use
homebrew, but moved over to macports due to some issues with how
homebrew handles prior versions of mac.
I'm using Mojave on my 2012 MacBook Pro 15" because I like two, yup two,
of my 32 bit apps and I absolutely refuse to move up to whatever the
latest is for my hardware (maybe Catalina) because of that and a beef I
have with APFS and time machine snapshots and phonehomeitis, and etc. ad
nauseum. That said, I'm even more attached to my functioning unix
environment than I am to any of that, so, if push came to shove, and I
had to move to something slightly more current to allow my environment
to keep tooling along, I probably would. Right now, I just backup
/usr/local and figure if I had to restore, I could probably limp along
with the unix tools, I've got installed already.
My question for y'all goes like this - How long will macports continue
to "work" on Mojave? By work, I mean that everything seems to be working
fine for pretty much anything I sudo port install and sudo port
selfupdate still works, and sudo port upgrade outdated's still good.
What's the vibe on this continuing? I don't really relish the idea of
getting caught off guard when some zealous young developer decides that
Mojave is quaint and oh so out of style, let's just kill it from our
servers, everybody who's anybody is running Monterey on M1 these days.
Oh and if you're a developer/maintainer/admin of the repos reading this
thread - Thank you, thank you, thank you. I hope you have some idea of
how important your work is to people you have probably never heard from.
I use your work daily!
Thanks!
Will
- Mojave and Macports Will Senn
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