Volunteer for a workshop on "setting up your own buildbot/buildslave"? (Was: Experiences with El Capitan)

Michael David Crawford mdcrawford at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 08:58:44 PST 2015


Not MacPorts specifically but that has been my experience with
numerous software packages.
Michael David Crawford, Baritone
mdcrawford at gmail.com

      One Must Not Trifle With Wizards For It Makes Us Soggy And Hard To Light.


On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 12, 2015, at 6:55 AM, Michael David Crawford wrote:
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>> There have been plenty of times that the only Mac available to me for
>> development has been my mother's Tiger G4 iMac.  I was at least able
>> to install a PowerPC backport of Firefox.
>>
>> What was most upsetting to me when I used it was that I often had to
>> build my own tools from source, because the powerpc binaries had been
>> withdrawn.
>
> Not sure if you were talking about MacPorts or other projects, but MacPorts has never offered PowerPC binaries. We started offering binaries with OS X 10.6, for x86_64 only.
>
>
>> It's one thing to stop supporting a product, quite another to actively
>> prevent its use.
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