Dependency on developer tools

[Lee Azzarello]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Scott Haneda <talklists at newgeo.com> wrote:

> You just saddened me as I run multiple PPC servers :)
> Do you have stats?  I would be willing to wager there is a disproportionate
> amount of users that are on PPC using MacPorts.
>
> I will bring this up also on the off list thread about Web site changes, as
> with a little plugging in of Analytics, or running the logs, we can find out
> exactly what the breakdown is, based on browser and OS.
> --
> Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
>
> On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>  We don't have the manpower at this point to adequately support all the
>> variations we already claim to support: most port maintainers have only one
>> Mac, running either Snow Leopard or Leopard. Tiger users are technically
>> unsupported, and this situation gets worse as fewer and fewer people test
>> anything on Tiger anymore and port updates unintentionally break Tiger.
>> PowerPC users are technically supported, but as more and more maintainers
>> and developers use Intel Macs, more and more PowerPC bugs are slipping in
>> unnoticed. The point is we don't want to introduce yet another variable into
>> the testing matrix. We want users to build the same way maintainers tested.
>> That means Xcode.
>>
>
> I just remembered that I have a PPC mac mini sitting on my desk. It's a
paperweight right now  :)

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Lee Azzarello
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