expecting a user to use `port select` from a Portfile (re: Qt 5 support on OS X 10.6)

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Mar 27, 2015, at 9:20 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>> 
>> IMHO, if upstream have 'officially' dropped support for OSX10.6, then this
>> is not something MacPorts ports should second guess, so my preference would
>> be for the 3rd option, just drop support. This is what I did with the root6
>> port, which had a similar issue.
> 
> I'm with René on this. It's one thing to drop support for software for
> a small circle of "hackers" and even then only the bleeding edge
> version of it (as is the case for ROOT 6) and another thing to drop
> support for a framework that could potentially be used in a huge
> number of other ports for tiny user-friendly utilities.

There's nothing inherently wrong with working outside of upstream's stated support, as long as the maintainer knows what they're getting into (they're basically becoming upstream at this point), and as long as it doesn't impact other ports with maintainers who might not be of the same mind.

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