I've been fortunate to be in a position to keep a "Panther" system
running, but I'm dependent on MacPorts for a lot of non-critical
utilities and conveniences (not to mention a couple of toys).
MacPorts basically is not supporting Panther at all (although Apple
is---just today there was a security update for Panther). So I just
hit the point where 20 ports that I use are not building.[1] I think
that's a message from upstairs....
Is there anybody out there still using XEmacs on "Panther" for real
work? I'm probably going to just go ahead and upgrade to 10.4 "Tiger"
on this system anyway, but if there are users to support I'll at least
consider whether I really *need* to upgrade (at this point, I
definitely *want* to!)
Reply to me; if anybody asks, I'll summarize later. Reply-To set.
Steve
Footnotes:
[1] Which is really painful, because the default failure mode for
MacPorts is to deactivate your working version, error out, and leave
you with sundry ports deactivated without warning. This can easily
happen quite silently because of a dependency....
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