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

[js]

BTW, Does "Official support" mean anything?
Just another name of priority?

On Nov 22, 2007 11:48 PM, James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:
> "Official" MacPorts policy has been that we support the two most
> recent versions of Mac OS. Which at the present means Tiger and
> Leopard. That doesn't mean that we'll go out of our way to break older
> versions, but that we don't promise we won't.
>
> A particularly good example of why this is probably a good idea is the
> current situation where we'd like to add additional support for
> launchd and startupitems. Launchd wasn't available on Panther, and to
> add new support for launchd startupitems will likely mean that ports
> relying on the feature will gradually become inoperable on Panther,
> where it will be too hard to maintain compatibility using
> SystemStarter features. To continue supporting a the 3-year-old
> Panther OS would mean restricting support for the newer versions, or
> creating an overly-complicated implementation.
>
> James
>
>
> On Nov 22, 2007, at 6:16 AM, js wrote:
>
> > 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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