Joshua, I agree.
We overachieve in the backward compatibility! The folks over at Homebrew shake their heads when we say that we support systems older than current - 2. At some point we need to regularly move the window of supported systems forward. P.S.: My oldest functioning Mac is a MacBook G3 Pismo. It is air-gaped by incompatible/obsolete WiFi hardware, and even it is running Leopard/10.5 (I don’t have MacPorts installed on it). Marius -- Marius Schamschula > On Jan 23, 2025, at 12:15 PM, Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote: > > This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. > It's had a good run, but it's long been getting harder and harder to support. > Upstream projects are understandably reluctant to add fixes for it. The very > few users who open Trac tickets for Tiger issues are opening them > considerably faster than they can be fixed. Maybe it's time to call it quits. > > 10.4 is of course already unsupported in the sense that we have no > expectation that maintainers should fix any problems on OS versions older > than current-2. So practically speaking, this would mean removing all > workarounds for 10.4 from base in the next major MacPorts release, closing > all 10.4 specific tickets as "wontfix", and beginning the process of removing > workarounds for 10.4 from ports as they are updated. > > What does everyone think? > > - Josh > Marius -- Marius Schamschula
