Sergey Fedorov wrote:
There was nearly no active support for any PowerPC systems for years
anyway (outside of legacy-support subproject), and most of
PowerPC-related fixes were from my side (which I now stopped
submitting here).
I have a small core on 10.4 PPCwhich serves me well... git, svn, ssh, gcc...
On 10.5 PPC beyond core I have a lot of packages.... all TenFourFox and
ArcticFox dependencies and most dependencies to get GIMP Aqua running!
So ripping 10.4 support from the base was indeed unnecessary and
rather symbolic than driven by any practical considerations.
that's my impression too... at least this is how it came out.
At the same time, at least the ports tree was not fully functional on
10.4 for quite a while, I believe. So given that in any case users
will require either a full fork or at least a local overlay to have
MacPorts working, nothing changes much.
Well.. one thing is a small overlay - which I have of course - another
thing is a whole fork.
Also the hope of overlays is to get them upstream :)
Riccardo
