<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <<a href="mailto:jeremyhu@macports.org">jeremyhu@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">If anything, I think MacPorts ought to be shielding users from Apple’s use of tooling updates to bitrot working software that happens to not be aligned with their release-to-release platform priorities.</blockquote><br>The best way to "shield users" is to fix or remove broken and unmaintained ports.</blockquote></div><br><div>Unlike post-iOS7 Apple, I don’t think platform vendors serve their users by capriciously breaking working software. If the apple-gcc42 port — or any other — works, then I see no reason to <i>forbid</i> developers from using it.</div><div><br></div><div>If, in the future, it ceases to work, I see no reason to forbid interested parties from fixing it.</div><div><br></div><div>-landonf</div></body></html>