Re: Need some advice regarding patches for old AppKit compatibility

Ok, that all sounds logical. I'll work on putting together the code, and then I'll report back to everyone here on the mailing list before I start actually trying to add anything to the tree. I'll probably end up with some additional questions along the way. Jason -- Jason Liu On Thu, Jun 4,

Re: Need some advice regarding patches for old AppKit compatibility

Hi, > On 4 Jun 2020, at 3:06 pm, Jason Liu wrote: > > Well, Blender and MaterialX both use cmake to build, so hopefully it'll work > without any major issues. > > Then, my next question is: If the header that I'm going to be wrapping is > #include , then where should I be putting my file in

Re: Need some advice regarding patches for old AppKit compatibility

> On 4 Jun 2020, at 5:50 am, Jason Liu wrote: > > Looking through the link that Chris provided, it looks like the MacPorts > legacy support package might indeed be the perfect place to add my AppKit > compatibility layer file. One tiny question that I have is: In the readme, > where it says

Re: Need some advice regarding patches for old AppKit compatibility

> does that sentence mean that the MacPorts legacy support package itself needs > GNU make, or does it mean that any portfile that uses the legacysupport > PortGroup needs to add GNU make as a build dependency? That line, and a lot of the other stuff added recently to the front page, is quite

Re: Need some advice regarding patches for old AppKit compatibility

Looking through the link that Chris provided, it looks like the MacPorts legacy support package might indeed be the perfect place to add my AppKit compatibility layer file. One tiny question that I have is: In the readme, where it says "GNU make is a hard build dependency", does that sentence mean

Re: Need some advice regarding patches for old AppKit compatibility

Great, I'll have a look at the stuff in that area. Thanks, Chris. Jason -- Jason Liu On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 2:38 PM Christopher Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Sounds like this *could* be a candidate for something to add to our legacy > support package. see > >

Re: Need some advice regarding patches for old AppKit compatibility

Hi, Sounds like this *could* be a candidate for something to add to our legacy support package. see https://github.com/macports/macports-legacy-support A port for this exists in MacPorts, and is applied as required to ports that need the

Need some advice regarding patches for old AppKit compatibility

In my course of packaging some new ports, I've run across a couple instances of applications which are claimed by their devs to only be compatible with "macOS 10.12 and above". However, I've discovered that in reality, the only reason they're no longer compatible with older versions of macOS is