CVS commit: pkgsrc/bootstrap

["Greg Troxel" <gdt%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   gdt
Date:           Wed Feb 10 14:55:36 UTC 2021

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/bootstrap: README.macOS

Log Message:
bootstrap/README.macOS

Consolidate some old version info.

Declare that PRs about 10.12 and earlier that do not contain fixes may
be closed without fixing.  (At this point there is still a lot of
useful hardware that runs 10.13.  Systems too old to run 10.13 are now
more or less heading towards retrocomputing, and those too old to run
10.11 have arrived.)  If you don't like this and would like to
actually work on such PRs, feel free to volunteer to have <= 10.12 PRs
assigned to you.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.3 -r1.4 pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.macOS

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.macOS
diff -u pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.macOS:1.3 pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.macOS:1.4
--- pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.macOS:1.3   Tue Feb  9 12:31:58 2021
+++ pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.macOS       Wed Feb 10 14:55:36 2021
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: README.macOS,v 1.3 2021/02/09 12:31:58 cjep Exp $
+$NetBSD: README.macOS,v 1.4 2021/02/10 14:55:36 gdt Exp $
 
 This file describes the use of current versions of pkgsrc with
 multiple versions of Darwin and macOS, omitting information about
@@ -169,32 +169,31 @@ section is partly to document what versi
 and partly to enable cleaning up bug reports without fixes for very
 old systems.
 
-pkgsrc PRs about 10.5 or older that do not contain fixes may be closed
+pkgsrc PRs about 10.12 or older that do not contain fixes may be closed
 without fixing.
 
-macOS 11 is new & current; hardware before 2013 cannot be upgraded to this
-version. Also this version introduces support for Apple M1 silicon.
+macOS 11.0 is the current version; hardware before 2013 cannot be upgraded to
+this version. Also this version introduces support for Apple M1
+processors, using the aarch64 instruction set.
 
-macOS 10.15 is current and supports the same hardware as 10.14.
+macOS 10.15 is maintained and supports the same hardware as 10.14.
 
-macOS 10.14 is current, but removes support for hardware before 2012
-and Macbooks before 2015.
+macOS 10.14 is somewhat old but still maintained.  It cannot be run on
+hardware before 2012 and Macbooks before 2015.
 
-macOS 10.13 is old and no longer supported by Apple; significant 
-amounts of hardware cannot be upgraded beyond this version.
-
-macOS 10.12 is old; Joyent has an active bulk build.
-
-OS X 10.11 is old; significant amounts of hardware cannot be upgraded 
+macOS 10.13 is old; Apple ended support in January of 2021.
+Significant amounts of entirely functional hardware cannot be upgraded
 beyond this version.
 
-OS X 10.10 is old.
+macOS 10.12 is very old.  There is no known reason to run it, as all
+(most?) hardware that runs 10.12 can run 10.13.
 
-OS X 10.9 (Darwin 13.4.0) is old.  (From this point on, this list is
-more of a history lesson than useful for running pkgsrc.)
+OS X 10.11 is very old; some hardware cannot be upgraded beyond this
+version, but most of it is old and slow, dating from approximately
+2010 or earlier.
 
-OS X 10.8 is old, and there are no no known reasons to it instead of a
-newer version.
+OS X 10.10, 10.9 and 10.8 are extremely old; most hardware that can
+run them can probably run 10.11.
 
 OS X 10.7 is the last version that works on a few Intel Macs, e.g. the
 Mac Pro 1.1 and 2.1 and some Mac Minis.
@@ -227,11 +226,10 @@ Sevan Janiyan <Sevan%NetBSD.org@localhost> provide
   https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2015/11/07/msg012171.html
 
 ** 10.14, --abi=64 x86-64, clang
-** 11, --abi=64 x86-64, clang
+** 11.0, --abi=64 x86-64, clang
 
-Joyent provide a bulk build for both 10.14/x86_64 and 11/x86_64:
+Joyent provide a bulk build for both 10.14/x86_64 and 11.0/x86_64:
   http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/
 
 They hold archives for 64-bit Sierra (10.12), Mavericks (10.9) and Snow
 Leopard (10.6), but these are no longer updated.
-