Time to say goodbye to Tiger?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Sergey Fedorov wrote:
> No point supporting anything below 10.5. All PowerPC machines that are 
> actually usable can run 10.5–10.6.
> 10.4 is much more broken than later systems and got no advantages.
>
> While I do not appreciate Homebrew policy and do not think it would be 
> wise to mimic it, it is reasonable to expect that MacPorts on PowerPC 
> implies at least 10.5.8.

no, to be honest it is not "reasonable", although convenient. 
Unfortunately 10.5.8 is a buggy/bloated OS. While very nice to look at 
and it has the "beginnings" of new APIs that make it a little bit less 
hard to port things to, it is inefficient. 10.6 is better... 
unfortunately there was no 10.5.9 :)
Get an old PowerBook and with 10.4 you can use it and while TenFourFox 
was updated it was usable. Compare it with 10.5 and it gets unusable.
Literally, except in raw computing power, my 2x 1Ghz G4 with 2GB of RAM 
with 10.5 is slower than my PowerBook with 10.4.


Riccardo