Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#29466 closed enhancement (duplicate)
MacPorts should let ports indicate OS version compatibility
| Reported by: | rudloff@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | 1.9.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) | |
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Description
I still use Tiger so there are some ports I can't build.
The problem is that MacPorts will first download all the dependencies before telling me I can't install the port.
So there should be some kind of check at the very beginning of the install.
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Cc: | ryandesign@… added |
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| Milestone: | → MacPorts Future |
| Summary: | Portfile should contain information about OSX compatible versions → MacPorts should let ports indicate OS version compatibility |
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
| Milestone: | MacPorts Future |
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| Resolution: | → duplicate |
| Status: | new → closed |
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Indeed it would be nice if ports could indicate something like this, rather than having to add blocks of code like we currently do (which has the deficiency you point out, that dependencies are still built first).
But it would be better to assume that a port will work with any Mac OS X version, and let the port specify OS versions with which it is not compatible. We don't have the manpower to test every single port on a new OS release, so we should just assume it will work, and if we discover that it does not, then we can mark the port as being incompatible.