Supporting Tiger Forever?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Nov 26, 2009, at 3:50 AM, Michael Crawford wrote:

> It occured to me recently that there could be a lot of benefit to both
> MacPorts and to the Mac user community, if you were to commit to
> supporting Mac OS X Tiger for a long time, if not forever.
> 
> The reason is that Leopard and all later releases won't run on PowerPC
> G3s and the slower-clocked G4s.  The minimum config for Leopard is a
> fast G4 or Intel.

I'm sure those folks exist, but it's also worth pointing out that they represent a vanishingly small fraction of the overall installed base now, so I'm not sure how much bang for buck the MacPorts community would really get in supporting them "forever."  Sure, if you're one of those people then it's pretty darned important from your perspective but, as the years go by, you'll probably notice that your Mac/G3 user group meetings are getting smaller and smaller and the Newton User Group is showing increasing interest in merging with you. :-)

- Jordan