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

[Eric Gallager]

I had a draft saved that was going to reply to this, but unfortunately
in the 4 years since starting it, I've forgotten where I was going to
go with it, so let's just say that as someone still using an old OS
release, I disagree.

On 6/6/14, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
> 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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