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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