On Feb 6, 2021, at 11:55, Lothar Haeger wrote:

> The latest version of FileZilla fails to build on my Catalina system and the 
> developer states, it requires the latest BigSur SDK to compile (though the 
> final binary should be running on macOS 10.11 and newer):
> 
>       → https://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticket/12358
> 
> If I understand that correctly, MacPorts will only be able to build the 
> software on BigSur, right? Since I am not yet on BigSur and do not intend to 
> go there anytime soon, how to best approach this kind of issue? 
> 
> - I could drop maintainership and hope for someone running BigSur to pick it 
> up.
> - I could patch the source and try to revert any use of the latest code 
> changes that now require SDK 11. 
> - I could just ignore updates form now on and MacPorts stays on the current 
> version forever. 
> - I could turn this into a (partially) binary port ;-)
> 
> Any suggestions? Is there any simple solution I'm overlooking?

Would it help if we had a port in MacPorts that installed the macOS 11 SDK? 
Could FileZilla build using that on older systems? I have long wanted to add a 
port with subports to install any macOS SDK, and it's mostly done, it's just 
not committed yet.


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