Is there a way to test ports on snow leopard

[Xim]

> 在 2020年3月29日，下午3:09，Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> 写道：
> 
> On 2020-3-29 17:17 , Xim wrote:
>> Dear Macport Developers,
>> 
>> As the maintainer of stlink, I received a build failure message from the
>> build bot, saying the port failed to build on snow leopard
>> (https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-10.6_i386-watcher/builds/4691).
>> I checked the log and identified the cause of build failure. Since I do
>> not own a snow leopard machine, I wonder if there is a way for me to
>> test a patch. By the way, builders of GitHub Pull Requests test only a
>> few recent versions and some are marked to be allowed failures. May the
>> build failure on snow leopard be tolerated ?
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Xim
>> chenguokai17 at mails.ucas.ac.cn <mailto:chenguokai17 at mails.ucas.ac.cn>
> 
> Maintainers are only expected to keep their ports working on the latest
> 3 major releases of macOS, which right now means 10.13 and later. Older
> versions may be supported at the maintainer's discretion, but users
> should not be surprised if there are problems. Some users may submit
> fixes for old systems, and it's nice to merge those if reasonable.
> 
> We don't have any form of remote access to build machines for testing,
> if that's what you're asking. You would need to get someone with a 10.6
> system to give you access, or set up a VM, if you want to do your own
> testing.
> 
> In this case though, it looks more like a bug affecting 32-bit systems
> rather than anything directly to do with the OS version. I imagine you'd
> likely be able to reproduce the problem on 10.13 with build_arch=i386.
> 
> - Josh


Thanks for your reply, I decide to inform the upstream that the problem still exists. (There was an issue which they thought solved). Waiting for new versions from upstream seems a proper solution.

Regards,
Xim
chenguokai17 at mails.ucas.ac.cn




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