I may try to make some magic and bring fresh go 🫣 -- wbr, Kirill
> On 27. Jul 2023, at 18:39, Christopher Nielsen <masc...@rochester.rr.com> > wrote: > > At present, our Go port is pinned at an older version - 1.17.3 - for macOS > 10.12 and earlier. With the result being that many Go-based ports simply fail > to build for those releases, wasting precious buildbot time. > > Just as importantly, the user experience isn’t great, either: There’s no > checking what’s supported where, so ports fail to build, with no indication > as to why. Instead, we should be informing the user that port xyz isn’t > supported on these older releases, if they require a Go version of 1.18+. > > While I’m confident we could support the latest version of Go for older macOS > releases too, that work hasn’t been done. There’s been discussion related to > it here-and-there, and folks have offered helpful suggestions. But little to > no tangible progress so far. > > In the near term, to both ensure a better user experience - and stop wasting > buildbot time - I’d like to see the ‘golang’ portgroup do the right thing. At > this point, the check is trivial: If a given port requires Go >= 1.18, and > macOS <= 10.12, the port isn’t buildable. Easy-peasy. > > Thoughts/concerns? > > Cheers, > -Chris
