[MacPorts] #29466: MacPorts should let ports indicate OS version compatibility (was: Portfile should contain information about OSX compatible versions)

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#29466: MacPorts should let ports indicate OS version compatibility
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 Reporter:  rudloff@…            |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  enhancement          |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:  MacPorts Future                      
Component:  base                 |     Version:  1.9.2                                
 Keywords:                       |        Port:                                       
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

 * cc: ryandesign@… (added)
  * milestone:  => MacPorts Future


Comment:

 Indeed it would be nice if ports could indicate something like this,
 rather than having to add blocks of code like we currently do (which has
 the deficiency you point out, that dependencies are still built first).

 But it would be better to assume that a port will work with any Mac OS X
 version, and let the port specify OS versions with which it is ''not''
 compatible. We don't have the manpower to test every single port on a new
 OS release, so we should just assume it will work, and if we discover that
 it does not, ''then'' we can mark the port as being incompatible.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29466#comment:1>
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