MacPorts 1.6 still supports OS X 10.3 Panther?

[js]

Thanks for the information.

I'm looking forward to it.

On Dec 20, 2007 12:51 PM,  <boeyms-at-large at boeyms.info> wrote:
> Hi Ryan and js,
>
> > MacPorts 1.6 should still support Panther. I believe someone will be
> > making a disk image soon. I don't know why the compile is failing for
> > you.
>
> Juan and I are working on the disk image.  js, I got the same error as you
> did  when attempting to build MacPorts 1.6 on Panther, and a fix is in the
> pipeline.  (For anybody whose interested in the technical details, the
> problem is described below [1].)
>
> We're hoping it'll be ready in the next 24 hours, as we know what we need
> to fix; the only issue to find a sufficiently elegant way to do it so that
> it doesn't surface in future.
>
> Given this delay in getting it to work for 10.3, do either of you (or
> anybody else!) think we should post an announcement somewhere, and if so,
> where?  In future, of course, I think we need to tighten up our release
> engineering process so this doesn't happen again; I'll talk to Juan about
> it when I catch him next.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Maun Suang
>
> [1] The problem is the sqlite3.h header file is not found when compiling
> src/cregistry/registry.c.  This problem doesn't surface on Tiger or later,
> because it /usr/include/sqlite3.h is found (the include flags are
> currently "-I.. -I. -I/usr/include"), but this file doesn't exist on
> Panther.  Since we go on to link against a static library built from the
> included sqlite-3.1.3 source, we should really include
> src/sqlite-3.1.3/sqlite3.h on all platforms.  I don't know if we'd face
> any problems with upgrading to the latest stable sqlite3 in our source
> distribution.
>
>