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

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue May 29 16:54:26 PDT 2012


On 2012-5-30 00:02 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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.

Clearing the dependencies is also nice to do.

If you really want to keep the port available for Tiger, you can copy
the current Tiger-supporting portfile and rename it (e.g. wxWidgets ->
wxWidgets28), and direct Tiger users to install the older version
instead in the pre-fetch message.

- Josh


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