MacPorts 2.11

[raf]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 03:24:11AM +1000, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 5/6/2025 16:10, raf via macports-dev wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 09:42:42PM +1000, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Just a heads up that I'm planning to create a new release branch and tag a
> > > 2.11.0 beta soon. Is there anything that we'd really like to get into master
> > > ahead of that?
> > > 
> > > - Josh
> > 
> > Can I just say that I'd like to be given lots of notice
> > before the 2.11 version comes out. My understanding is
> > that it will be the first version that no longer
> > supports macos 10.4. Perhaps this is that notice. So
> > I'd like to be able to get my 10.4 laptop up to date
> > before 2.11. I'll do an update on my 20ish year old
> > laptop right now :-).
> 
> There will be at least one beta and one release candidate, which will be
> announced as usual. When the final version is released, selfupdate on 10.4
> will fail. 'port sync' will still work, and new features are not supposed to
> be used in the ports tree for two weeks after a major release, so you will
> have that long before you need to stop syncing to avoid breaking things.
> 
> We also always create a tag in the ports repo at the time of a new base
> release.
> 
> - Josh

That's great (of course). Thanks.

cheers,
raf