Supported configurations once Mavericks is released

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Sep 25, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:

> I would like to open a discussion about what configurations we intend to list as supported with the release of Mavericks.  Currently, our webpage states:
> """
> We provide a single software tree that attempts to track the latest release of every software title (port) we distribute, without splitting them into “stable” Vs. “unstable” branches, targeting mainly the current Mac OS X release (10.8, A.K.A. Mountain Lion) and the immediately previous two (10.7, A.K.A. Lion and 10.6, A.K.A. Snow Leopard).
> """
> 
> This is more a reflection of the maintainer base than it is a MacPorts policy, with older OS versions falling out of support due to lack of users and maintainers.
> 
> The reality is that Snow Leopard remains a popular release.  Many factors including rosetta support keep users on this old OS, and I'm not sure we want to "drop" support for SL with the release of Mavericks.  We do, however, want to limit the number of configurations that we support in this world of more rapid OS release cycles.


+1, still stuck with rosetta in some shops.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)