[47706] trunk/base

Toby Peterson toby at macports.org
Wed Mar 4 06:30:58 PST 2009


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 3, 2009, at 22:43, toby at macports.org wrote:
>
>> use sw_vers -productVersion (breaks jaguar compatibility)
>
> Please change this back to the way it was. I deliberately used a call that
> would work on all versions of Mac OS X that have ever existed so that users
> who attempt an install on an ancient Mac OS X at least get a sensible error
> message telling them their Mac OS X is too old, instead of seeing an error
> that sw_vers is being used incorrectly. Please see r37552.

If people are still using ridiculously old releases of Mac OS X, I
think they *know* that. Works on Panther, which is already unsupported
as it is.

- Toby


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