Access to machines with old OS versions/architectures, like 10.4, 10.5, ... ppc

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jun 6, 2014, at 4:09 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2014-06-05 17:11, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> - developers willing to play and nail some of the problems/bugs down
> 
> I think this is the limiting factor here. As you said, these OS versions
> are considered unsupported and we only fix bugs if anyone provides a
> patch. That implies there is someone running this system and is
> interested in getting a fix. Anyone still running such an old OS version
> should be aware what they are doing, so I hope these would be
> experienced developers capable of debugging the software.

It's probably a bad idea to do anything to encourage people to keep using OS releases that are no longer receiving security updates from Apple as well.

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