<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Jan 16, 2018, at 6:16 AM, Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary <<a href="mailto:hans@stare.cz">hans@stare.cz</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Jan 16 09:49:32, <a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>feedback about problems on that platform, but also because any PPC</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>machine is super slow and MacPorts is often the most important part</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>that actually makes those machines still usable. In most cases the</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>port would build on 10.5/i386 if it builds on both 10.5/ppc and 10.6.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Building on more platforms surely is a benefit in itself,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>exposing bugs that only show up on some archs.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Building on ancient OSes like 10.5 does not really help in that regard, as</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>its highly unlike any issues that come up are anything upstream maintainers</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>of packages would have an interest in fixing.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>That depends on the upstream I guess.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>You don't want your software to run on MacOS 10.5.8?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I understand that some things have changed massively</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>(audio output across 10.5.8 - 10.13.2, anyone?),</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>but basic POSIX C should still work the same.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I am stuck with 10.5.8 on this particular machine anyway.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Jan</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Are you sure about that? Even my most ancient intel machines, 32bit, can go up past there.</span><br><span></span><br><span>K</span></div></blockquote><br><div>even a macbook 1,1 can do 10.6.8</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook_2.0_black.html">https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook_2.0_black.html</a></div></body></html>