Re: pkg/49511 (Unbreak lang/ruby200-base on Mac OS X Tiger)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49511; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/49511 (Unbreak lang/ruby200-base on Mac OS X Tiger)
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 20:16:27 +0000

 On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 01:35:01AM +0000, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
  >  I don't disagree this change to be commited since similar patch was
  >  added to lang/ruby193-base.  But, I would not do by myself.
  >  
  >  * I don't have testing environment such old release of Mac OS X.
  >  * According to pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.MacOSX, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is
  >    not a supporting version of pkgsrc.
  >  
  >  It is the same about PR pkg/49512.
 
 The last I remember this actually being discussed (some time back)
 we'd agreed to keep supporting 10.4 (or 10.5? the last powerpc
 version, anyway), at least if people send in patches, because it has
 no upgrade path.
 
 I would like to be able to tell people with macppc hardware to install
 NetBSD instead of OS X, but until we make some progress on the desktop
 front I can't do that with a straight face.
 
 Anyhow, the submitter has this MacOS version, and I think we can
 believe that the change fixes things for him; my chief concern is that
 this change might break other platforms.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost