On Jan 14 21:47:43, mo...@macports.org wrote:
> On 14 January 2018 at 11:40, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> > A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel
> >
> > The assumption I believe being if you have an intel machine, you should
> > update at least to 10.6... the 10.5 buildbot exists because that is the last
> > OS supporting PPC machines.
>
> There is no special reason for *not* having the 10.5/intel bot
> available except that the demand for it is pretty low and each
> buildbot consumes some resources and nobody bothered adding it. If a
> lot of users actually requested it (and ideally someone provided
> additional hardware resources), I guess it could be added, but this
> has not been the case so far.
Out of curiosity, is there some statistics on these demands
(in particular showing the low demand for 10.5.8)? I don't
dispute it, just wondering how minor 10.5.8/{intel,ppc} is nowadays.
> I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some
> feedback about problems on that platform, but also because any PPC
> machine is super slow and MacPorts is often the most important part
> that actually makes those machines still usable. In most cases the
> port would build on 10.5/i386 if it builds on both 10.5/ppc and 10.6.
Building on more platforms surely is a benefit in itself,
exposing bugs that only show up on some archs.
Jan
