Time to say goodbye to Tiger?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,


Joshua Root wrote:
> This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Mac OS X 10.4 
> Tiger. It's had a good run, but it's long been getting harder and 
> harder to support. Upstream projects are understandably reluctant to 
> add fixes for it. The very few users who open Trac tickets for Tiger 
> issues are opening them considerably faster than they can be fixed. 
> Maybe it's time to call it quits.
>
> 10.4 is of course already unsupported in the sense that we have no 
> expectation that maintainers should fix any problems on OS versions 
> older than current-2. So practically speaking, this would mean 
> removing all workarounds for 10.4 from base in the next major MacPorts 
> release, closing all 10.4 specific tickets as "wontfix", and beginning 
> the process of removing workarounds for 10.4 from ports as they are 
> updated.

I use MacPorts on 10.4 for basic stuff, it works and is very useful. Of 
course I have no high expectations, since I actively work on 10.5 and 
there it is already a big hurdle...
However having basics working: subversions, git, openssl, gnumake and 
such is of high usage. Only way e.g. to get repository access.

maybe some kind of restricted port selection?

Riccardo