MacPorts 1.6 still supports OS X 10.3 Panther?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 5, 2008, at 16:49, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Jan 5, 2008, at 04:43, Chris Janton wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-01-05 , at 01:19 , Kevin Ballard wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jan 4, 2008, at 23:32, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Maybe this changeset is related to the problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/changeset/29498
>>>>
>>>> If this problem is related to that commit and 10.3, then the  
>>>> only thing I can think of is that Mac OS X 10.3 included a  
>>>> broken version of tclsh, but that doesn't seem too plausible.
>>>>
>>>> I can't think of any reason for this error to only affect  
>>>> commands that open Portfiles.
>>>
>>> Anything I can do to help track down what is going wrong? The  
>>> "version" of tclsh on 10.3 appears just like 10.4 and 10.5 - a  
>>> symbolic link to tclsh8.4
>>
>> I looked through the sources for "ui_channels" and found reference  
>> in the ChangeLog to the changeset I mentioned a couple messages  
>> ago. I could try reverting that changeset and compiling, see if it  
>> works then.

I meant "You could try..."

> Reverting changes just because of the name is probably a bad idea -  
> that change was made for a reason, and there's nothing I can think  
> of that would make that change have any problems on 10.3.

I understand the change was made for a reason. But the error message  
reported on Panther is "Error: Unable to open port: invalid command  
name 'ui_channels'" and that changeset does remove three functions  
called "ui_channels" from port.tcl, portindex.tcl and portmirror.tcl.  
I don't have Panther or I'd test it myself. Chris does have Panther  
and was asking for suggestions for what he could try. So I made a  
suggestion.