Panther tickets

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 20, 2009, at 20:59, MacPorts wrote:

> #10989: BUG: gcc41 build failure on Mac OS X 10.3.9
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>   Reporter:  roland@…              |       Owner:  mww@…
>       Type:  defect                |      Status:  closed
>   Priority:  High                  |   Milestone:
>  Component:  ports                 |     Version:  1.3.2
> Resolution:  wontfix               |    Keywords:  gcc41 libstc++  
> nm odnm Panther
>       Port:                        |
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> Changes (by toby@…):
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>   * status:  reopened => closed
>   * resolution:  => wontfix
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> Comment:
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>  Closing again. We don't support Panther, and there obviously isn't
>  anything being done about this bug. Given that we have about 1500  
> more
>  open tickets than we can deal with, I believe this a reasonable  
> course of
>  action.

This is the second time you've closed this ticket for the sole reason  
that the problem occurs only on Panther. I previously reopened this  
ticket explaining that's not a good reason for closing. You've closed  
other tickets for the same reason. Up to now, we have not had a  
policy of closing tickets for the sole reason that they are Panther- 
specific. While we do not officially support Panther, the policy thus  
far has been that we would still accept patches to fix things for  
Panther. I find it useful to have bug reports filed for issues, even  
if a fix is not immediately known, that way interested parties can  
see the report and Cc themselves and offer input. The number of open  
tickets in the database has no bearing on this. If you would like  
MacPorts to adopt a policy of declining to fix Panther issues and  
immediately closing Panther tickets, let's discuss that proposal here.

My feeling was that getting the gcc4 ports working again on Panther  
was of particular importance, since otherwise no software that  
requires gcc 4.x can be compiled on Panther, since Panther's Xcode  
1.5 only includes gcc 3.3. That is why I filed some gcc tickets and  
added comments to others.