What should a port do if 10.4 is not supported any more?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On May 29, 2012, at 08:50, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>
>>> What is the general strategy for handling such situations in MacPorts?
>>> I guess that other developers might reject my patch if it drops
>>> support for 10.4, but with wxWidgets 2.9.4 on the way that is bound to
>>> happen anyway, so it might make more sense to think about it earlier.
>
> If a port doesn't support Tiger, it should so indicate with a pre-fetch error message. Examples of ports that do this include csu and nodejs.

Thank you. This is all that I wanted to know. I was looking for such
ports, but didn't know how to find them myself. In principle one could
fetch 1.9.3 on Tiger, but I guess that it would be a headache to write
it properly and maintain it.

Mojca