Please do not remove Tiger support
Riccardo Mottola
riccardo.mottola at libero.it
Tue Feb 11 20:28:30 UTC 2025
Sergey Fedorov wrote:
> There was nearly no active support for any PowerPC systems for years
> anyway (outside of legacy-support subproject), and most of
> PowerPC-related fixes were from my side (which I now stopped
> submitting here).
I have a small core on 10.4 PPCwhich serves me well... git, svn, ssh, gcc...
On 10.5 PPC beyond core I have a lot of packages.... all TenFourFox and
ArcticFox dependencies and most dependencies to get GIMP Aqua running!
>
> So ripping 10.4 support from the base was indeed unnecessary and
> rather symbolic than driven by any practical considerations.
that's my impression too... at least this is how it came out.
>
> At the same time, at least the ports tree was not fully functional on
> 10.4 for quite a while, I believe. So given that in any case users
> will require either a full fork or at least a local overlay to have
> MacPorts working, nothing changes much.
Well.. one thing is a small overlay - which I have of course - another
thing is a whole fork.
Also the hope of overlays is to get them upstream :)
Riccardo
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