MacPorts 1.6 still supports OS X 10.3 Panther?

Kevin Ballard eridius at macports.org
Mon Jan 7 00:05:36 PST 2008


Glad to hear that it seems to be working now. I really don't know what  
was wrong, but obviously there was some bug with the info command on  
10.3. The recent changes mean we no longer rely on the 'info commands'  
behaviour, so we should be good.

-Kevin Ballard

On Jan 7, 2008, at 12:56 AM, Boey Maun Suang wrote:

> Thanks so much for helping me out with fixing this!  I won't be able  
> to
> get to my Panther machine for another day or so, but once I do, I'll
> double-check that this fix works for me, and then prep the Panther  
> DMG and
> source releases.
>
> Just out of curiosity, Kevin, any idea as to exactly why we were  
> getting
> this problem?  I wonder if there was a bug fixed between the tcl on  
> 10.3.9
> (which appears to be 8.4.4 [1], Chris can confirm this by running  
> `info
> patchlevel` in tclsh) and the tcl on 10.4.11, which is 8.4.7.  )I've
> looked briefly at the Tcl Changelog for that period, but it's awfully
> long.)

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Kevin Ballard
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