architecture wanted: ppc7400

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Oct 2 03:28:48 PDT 2009


On 2009-10-2 20:11, Rainer Müller wrote:
> On 2009-10-01 22:24 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> My intention is to still support 10.4 and PowerPC.
> 
> In my opinion we should drop that now. If someone is still using Tiger
> on a PowerPC based Mac then they should get Leopard now because it is
> the last OS version they will ever get. And if someone is still using
> Tiger on Intel, Snow Leopard is cheap enough to make a argument because
> of the price more or less invalid. Why else wouldn't you want to upgrade?
> 
> We should stick to our support plan which is that the two latest major
> Mac OS X releases are supported, namely Leopard and Snow Leopard.

All the policy can really do is set expectations. If Ryan wants to
exceed those expectations, that's his choice, and doesn't mean anyone
else has to.

- Josh


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