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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/13/22 5:01 PM, Bill Cole wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:6D2A3179-606F-4BCB-BC9B-302528494572@billmail.scconsult.com">On
2022-01-13 at 16:26:01 UTC-0500 (Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:26:01 -0600)
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Will Senn <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:will.senn@gmail.com"><will.senn@gmail.com></a>
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My question for y'all goes like this - How long will macports
continue to "work" on Mojave?
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No one can actually give a fixed date for that which you could
reasonably rely upon.
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MacPorts still has support for Tiger. That's 10 releases older
than Mojave. It is unlikely that the aggregate 'vision' of the
people doing the work of keeping MP going will change so much as
to drop Mojave before it is simply impossible to continue to
support it. If I recall correctly, dropping Panther only happened
because the last Panther-capable machine available to the project
died. Speaking only as a long-time user and observer of MacPorts,
I would be surprised if Mojave support went away in this decade.
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With that said, "support" in MacPorts' core is not the only thing
to be concerned with. One thing I found running Snow Leopard until
last February on a 32bit-only CoreDuo was that support in ports I
was using or tried to use was slowly crumbling over time, often
beyond anything MacPorts could work around. The biggest headaches
weren't even rooted in hardware or OS version per se, but in the
toolchain (gcc/clang/etc.) and runtime (libgcc/libcxx/etc.)
evolution. Re-bootstrapping my whole MacPorts world never became
impossible, but by the end it was a multi-day festivity involving
building multiple toolchains and learning obscure command-line
options for port. It may never become impossible for to keep using
MacPorts on Mojave, but it may end up taking so much babysitting
that you'd rather not. I hope that's a long time, because my
personal machines are staying there for some time as well.
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks for the response. I
thought it was something along these lines, but its reassuring to
hear. <br>
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My Snow Leopard host, an old iMac, died before the lack of support
got too bad. My laptop will hopefully hold out a while longer.
It's kinda funny, but for a 10 year old machine, it' still quite
respectable and is actually more capable than my 2021 MacBook Pro
M1 which can't even do virtual box.</font><br>
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