Xcode 15.0 on Ventura builders

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

Chris, that is sensible.  I just wanted to get a feel for the playing field
here.  Yes indeed, there would be increased build failures.

> We have enough bug reports from users with Xcode 15 ...

Good point.  I also wonder when Sonoma and Xcode 15 will show up in Google
Actions/CI for Macports.  For portfile work, that would probably be more
useful than on builders, right now.


On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 6:38 AM Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For me, I would hold off updating the macOS13 buildbots until the linker
> issues with Xcode 15 are resolved, as otherwise you are likely to see
> increased build failures, e.g. with ports that use gcc built binaries. At
> least at the moment the buildbots are still able to provide binary
> tarballs, minimising the impact of these issues to those who have updated
> Xcode.
>
> We have enough bug reports from users with Xcode 15, and eventually any
> macOS14 buildbots. I don’t see the advantage to also having these issues
> hit the macOS13 builds as well.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 29 Sep 2023, at 3:24 am, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via
> macports-dev <macports-dev at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Devs, Xcode 15.0 with all its "interesting" issues is supposed to be
> compatible with Ventura versions 13.5 and up.  Would it be reasonable to
> update any of the Ventura build machines with Xcode/CLT 15.0 for testing
> purposes, instead of waiting for a Sonoma builder to be available?
>
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