On 1/8/24 14:15, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
/The whole of open-source is largely a hobby project/ :)
Lots of people are paid to work with or on open source software. MacPorts is not an abstract pass-time like playing cards; it provides people with functionality that they need to do their work and make their machines operate the way they wish.
Then, how many people depend on 10.7, 10.8 or anything below, say, macOS 12? There is nothing specific to PowerPC here. Apple hardware restricts OS which can be installed, so nobody gonna use Intel systems just as much for commercial applications. In fact I would bet that there are more users of 10.5 ppc than of 10.7 x86. There are some reasons to use the former, there are arguably none to use the latter.
I think not very many people use such old versions of the system, and if it becomes hard to support them, or takes a long time, one will have to start questioning if it should be done by the main part of the project.
Perry
