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11:01:34
easye
Morning everyone. I'm the "openmaintainer" of the SBCL port under MacPorts, where we are having problems getting a build working for PowerPC/Darwin. Can anyone comment on <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/65188#comment:5> that I can relay useful information for?
11:02:21
easye
I don't have access to ppc-macos-* so I am just currently trying to relay information to those with the actual hardware.
11:10:51
easye
And I am guessing by the problems listed in that Trac ticket I referenced that the actual building of ppc/darwin had bitrotted some time ago.
11:20:43
Krystof
easye: I think it's worth saying that if there are users willing to step up and maintain our ppc/darwin support, we'd reinstate it on that basis
11:21:12
Krystof
the problem we were having is: no hardware, no access to hardware, no demand from users, no ability to check whether changes for other platforms cause breakage
13:12:38
easye
Krystof: thanks for the clarification. Will pass it on to "my" MacPorts community as it seems there is still some amount of PPC/Darwin SBCL users, so they can evaluate.
13:56:28
Krystof
having it in our sources is not without cost, even with a specialist maintainer. Ask if the existing ppc/darwin sbcl users in that community is really large enough to justify the effort...