Mac OS X 10.3 support (was: Re: Installing python25 on OS X 10.3 failed)

[js]

Sadly, there's no way to figure out how many OS X 10.3 users exist.
This number is probably the most important one to take into account
deciding whether MacPorts should support OS X 10.3 or not.
Assuming Apple supports OSs as long as there're fair amount of users,
this might be a good idea to support MacPorts on OSs Apple officially supports.
(10.3 - 10.5?)

Letting Apple decidess it might be a better

On Nov 20, 2007 7:30 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 14:02, Weissmann Markus wrote:
>
> > 10.3 is not officially supported anymore*) and I do not even have
> > access to a 10.3 box.
> > I'll happily add any patch for 10.3 that does not conflict with
> > 10.4 or 10.5 but I don't have a way of testing it.
> >
> >
> > -Markus
> >
> > *) which doesn't mean anyone will break stuff on purpose
>
>
> This is the first I've heard of 10.3 not being supported anymore.
>
> Historically MacPorts has supported the current Mac OS X release and
> the previous one, and granted, 10.5 was just released. But a lot of
> ports aren't working so great on Leopard right now [1]. If a decision
> is made to drop 10.3 support, I would hope that we would wait until
> the 10.5 bug reports stop bucketing in and we can honestly say that
> the MacPorts experience on 10.5 is at least as good as it was on
> 10.4. And we are currently far from that.
>
> Note that the new guide [2] does not seem to indicate what versions
> of Mac OS X are supported. It should so indicate, fairly near the top.
>
> [1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/query?
> status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&summary=%
> 7Eleopard&order=priority
>
> [2] http://geeklair.net/new_macports_guide/
>
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