Support for ancient machines and operating systems

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Jan 8 19:55:40 UTC 2024


On 9/1/2024 01:53, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> How do you see the way to backport changes from upstream MacPorts to legacy MacPorts?
> 
> at some point automatical merge would be broken on conflicts, and I assume quite fast.

I would posit that if maintaining a patch set in your fork is a lot of 
work, most of that work would still have to be done if the patch set 
were maintained in the mainline repo, it's just "invisible" work because 
you're not the one who has to do it.

- Josh


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