<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 16, 2018, at 8:16 AM, Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com" class="">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary <<a href="mailto:hans@stare.cz" class="">hans@stare.cz</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On Jan 16 09:49:32, <a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk" class="">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some<br class="">feedback about problems on that platform, but also because any PPC<br class="">machine is super slow and MacPorts is often the most important part<br class="">that actually makes those machines still usable. In most cases the<br class="">port would build on 10.5/i386 if it builds on both 10.5/ppc and 10.6.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Building on more platforms surely is a benefit in itself,<br class="">exposing bugs that only show up on some archs.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Building on ancient OSes like 10.5 does not really help in that regard, as<br class="">its highly unlike any issues that come up are anything upstream maintainers<br class="">of packages would have an interest in fixing.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">That depends on the upstream I guess.<br class="">You don't want your software to run on MacOS 10.5.8?<br class=""><br class="">I understand that some things have changed massively<br class="">(audio output across 10.5.8 - 10.13.2, anyone?),<br class="">but basic POSIX C should still work the same.<br class=""><br class="">I am stuck with 10.5.8 on this particular machine anyway.<br class=""><br class=""> Jan<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">Are you sure about that? Even my most ancient intel machines, 32bit, can go up past there.<br class=""><br class="">K</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>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.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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