binary packages for 10.5.8

[Marius Schamschula]

> On Jan 16, 2018, at 8:16 AM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> 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

I just checked: a Core Duo is limited to 10.5.8 only if it has less than 1GB of RAM, but can run 10.6.8 otherwise.

Marius
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