[MacPorts] #69696: The ports-11_arm64-builder is offline since 3 months

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#69696: The ports-11_arm64-builder is offline since 3 months
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  Reporter:  tuffnatty      |      Owner:  admin@…
      Type:  defect         |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal         |  Milestone:
 Component:  buildbot/mpbb  |    Version:
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 Replying to [comment:2 tuffnatty]:
 > To me, omitting the darwin_20.arm64 builds among all the others (10.5+)
 is strange. Let's hope the project gets more hardware.

 Omitting Darwin 20 arm64 builds is not strange. It's easily explained by
 the fact that we have one Apple Silicon build machine and its disk is big
 enough for only three environments. Right now, that's macOS 12, 13, and
 14. If we get a bigger disk or a second machine we can re-add macOS 11
 builds.

 We never built binaries for 10.5 Intel. We briefly built binaries for 10.5
 PowerPC years ago but the hardware failed.

 > IMHO keeping old OS versions working is an invaluable competitive
 advantage for MacPorts, as building software releases on older OS/SDK
 versions is required for wider compatibility, and not having to recompile
 a half of the system there is a huge help.

 MacPorts still works fine on macOS 11 arm64 and you can install any ports
 you want, they'll just have to compile from source instead of getting a
 binary. Thankfully, Apple Silicon processors are fast so this doesn't take
 very long for most ports.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/69696#comment:3>
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