Off topic :)
Ken Cunningham wrote:
To get reasonable performance out of these machines I always max out
the Ram (cheap cheap cheap on Ebay) and in most of them, flip in an SSD.
I tried outting a SSD in mine, but it run hiccups... so I bought a new
spinning rust HD and that one works fine. Sti
On 17/01/18 16:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi,
Chris Jones wrote:
many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always
migrate their machines to the most up to date OS they can run, one
that is still receiving security updates, in order to not expose
themselves to possible is
On 17/01/18 17:31, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 17, 2018, at 10:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
However 10.5 runs considerably faster on 32bit macs.s and those who cannot take
4GB of RAM. My own experience
I see; I hadn't heard that feedback before. According to Apple, 10.6 focused
not on new f
On Jan 17, 2018, at 10:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> However 10.5 runs considerably faster on 32bit macs.s and those who cannot
> take 4GB of RAM. My own experience
I see; I hadn't heard that feedback before. According to Apple, 10.6 focused
not on new features but on performance, so it should
Hi,
Chris Jones wrote:
many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always
migrate their machines to the most up to date OS they can run, one
that is still receiving security updates, in order to not expose
themselves to possible issues. 10.5 for sure hasn't received any
secur
On Jan 16 06:16:07, ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I am stuck with 10.5.8 on this particular machine anyway.
>
> Are you sure about that? Even my most ancient intel machines, 32bit, can go
> up past there.
> even a macbook 1,1 can do 10.6.8
> https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macboo
On 2018-01-16, at 6:24 AM, Marius Schamschula wrote:
>
> I just checked: a Core Duo is limited to 10.5.8 only if it has less than 1GB
> of RAM, but can run 10.6.8 otherwise.
>
> Marius
To get reasonable performance out of these machines I always max out the Ram
(cheap cheap cheap on Ebay) and
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 8:16 AM, Ken Cunningham
> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some
> feedback about problems on that platform
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 6:16 AM, Ken Cunningham
> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> I find it useful to have a ppc builder available to have at least some
> feedback about problems on that platfor
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Jan Stary wrote:
>
> On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
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
On Jan 16 09:49:32, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> > > 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 mak
On 16 January 2018 at 10:16, Jan Stary wrote:
>
> What is the proportion of the (would be) 10.5.8 packages to the overal size?
> (No doubt it's a lot of space, but what portion of it is one platform?)
Approximately one divided by the number of platforms. The proportion
can drop if many packages fa
On 16/01/18 09:55, Jan Stary wrote:
The reasons for not having a 10.5 Intel builder are that
no users should need it (all users on 10.5 Intel should upgrade to 10.6)
Why?
many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always migrate
their machines to the most up to date OS the
> > > The reasons for not having a 10.5 Intel builder are that
> > > no users should need it (all users on 10.5 Intel should upgrade to 10.6)
> >
> > Why?
>
> many reasons. For instance security. In my view users should always migrate
> their machines to the most up to date OS they can run,
Some
On 16/01/18 09:14, Jan Stary wrote:
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 exi
On 16/01/18 09:16, Jan Stary wrote:
On Jan 15 22:33:56, ryandes...@macports.org wrote:
On Jan 14, 2018, at 14:47, Mojca Miklavec 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, yo
On Jan 15 22:33:56, ryandes...@macports.org wrote:
>
> On Jan 14, 2018, at 14:47, Mojca Miklavec 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
> >>
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 th
On 16 January 2018 at 05:33, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> The reasons for not having a 10.5 Intel builder are that no users should need
> it (all users on 10.5 Intel should upgrade to 10.6) and the packages it would
> create would take up disk space on all mirrors; we have already had one
> MacPorts
On Jan 14, 2018, at 14:47, Mojca Miklavec 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
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
Hi Jan,
Jan Stary wrote:
PPC or Intel ?
A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel
Ah, right, my machine is Intel. Thanks.
most stuff works fine on 10.5 and I an happy with that OS which is
faster than 10.6 if you have 32bit intel CPUs (if you have 64bit,
indeed, 10.6 is a recommendable updat
On Jan 14 10:40:23, jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> PPC or Intel ?
> A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel
Ah, right, my machine is Intel. Thanks.
Jan
PPC or Intel ?
A buildbot exists for PPC, but not intel
https://build.macports.org/waterfall
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.
Chris
> On 14 Jan 201
How far back are the MacOS releases supported with binary packages?
I am currently installing SoX on 10.5.8, and it seems each and every
dependency (including apple-gcc42 for some reason) has to be built
form source.
Jan
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