Port trees for specific versions of MacOS

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Sat Mar 31 18:23:29 UTC 2018


On 31 March 2018 at 19:31, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>
> For example, cmake pegged @ 3.9 will work for many years on Tiger to build any software that needs cmake, and at present, you can get nothing usable from the main MacPorts repo.

CMake is in fact one exception where I would be in favour of pegging
it to 3.9 for the super old OSes even in the official tree.

I couldn't say the same about others.

Mojca

PS: Fink would just leave you with whatever packages were there when
they dropped official support for one particular OS and they no longer
support < 10.9. So most packages would probably still work, but you
get zero updates. I noticed that they still have 10.1 in their
repository :)


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