binary packages for 10.5.8

[Ken Cunningham]

> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 16 09:49:32, jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
>>>> I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some
>>>> feedback about problems on that platform, but also because any PPC
>>>> machine is super slow and MacPorts is often the most important part
>>>> that actually makes those machines still usable. In most cases the
>>>> port would build on 10.5/i386 if it builds on both 10.5/ppc and 10.6.
>>> 
>>> Building on more platforms surely is a benefit in itself,
>>> exposing bugs that only show up on some archs.
>> 
>> Building on ancient OSes like 10.5 does not really help in that regard, as
>> its highly unlike any issues that come up are anything upstream maintainers
>> of packages would have an interest in fixing.
> 
> That depends on the upstream I guess.
> You don't want your software to run on MacOS 10.5.8?
> 
> I understand that some things have changed massively
> (audio output across 10.5.8 - 10.13.2, anyone?),
> but basic POSIX C should still work the same.
> 
> I am stuck with 10.5.8 on this particular machine anyway.
> 
>    Jan
> 


Are you sure about that? Even my most ancient intel machines, 32bit, can go up past there.

K