Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-24 Thread Joshua Root
On 2021-1-25 18:48 , Andrew Janke wrote: How do you download the installers for Big Sur and for older versions of macOS? I've always had to go through the App Store to download installers, and what it makes available for me is dependent on the current OS version and hardware of my Mac. And

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-24 Thread Andrew Janke
Hi Ken, On 1/24/21 11:34 PM, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> I try to fix build issues on old systems. The problem is that it’s very >> difficult to >> do it since I need to merge blindly something and wait for the buildbots. > If you would like to set up a VM or several to help do this, it is > very

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-24 Thread Ken Cunningham
> I try to fix build issues on old systems. The problem is that it’s very > difficult to > do it since I need to merge blindly something and wait for the buildbots. If you would like to set up a VM or several to help do this, it is very easy, I found. I like Parallels, and it does VMs from 10.5

Re: Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-24 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 24, 2021, at 17:52, Ruben Di Battista wrote: > I think that one of the selling points of Macports, at least for me, is > providing ports for legacy systems. So on the ports I maintain, I try to fix > build issues on old systems. The problem is that it’s very difficult to do it >

Can we enable CI for legacy systems?

2021-01-24 Thread Ruben Di Battista
Hello, I think that one of the selling points of Macports, at least for me, is providing ports for legacy systems. So on the ports I maintain, I try to fix build issues on old systems. The problem is that it’s very difficult to do it since I need to merge blindly something and wait for the

Re: OpenJDK ports incorrectly shown as 'green' for unsupported OS versions on ports.macports.org

2021-01-24 Thread Joshua Root
On 2021-1-25 00:36 , Craig Treleaven wrote: A port I’ve been working on (OpenShot) requires OS X 10.9 or later. It also needs a non-default variant (py-pyqt5 +webkit). So I can use 'known_fail yes’ on older OS versions and the active_variants portgroup to insist on the needed variant. The

Re: OpenJDK ports incorrectly shown as 'green' for unsupported OS versions on ports.macports.org

2021-01-24 Thread Craig Treleaven
> On Jan 22, 2021, at 6:47 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > > On 2021-1-23 09:40 , Craig Treleaven wrote: >> The port watcher job therefore finished successfully even though no supports >> were actually built. I believe this “successful” result is what is >> displayed on the port page you linked to.