@nieder @cooljeanius Could you say if there are some stopping issues to prevent the current Fink from working on PowerPC?
Configure script has this:
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} elsif ($host =~ /^(powerpc|i386)-apple-darwin9\./) { |
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&print_breaking("This system no longer supported " . |
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"for current versions of fink. Please use fink 0.34.10 or earlier.\n"); |
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$distribution = "10.5"; |
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} elsif ($host =~ /^i386-apple-darwin10\./) { |
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&print_breaking("This system no longer supported " . |
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"for current versions of fink. Please use fink 0.34.10 or earlier.\n"); |
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$distribution = "10.6"; |
I can understand that Homebrew is a pain to fix, since it needs a modern Ruby, which needs a modern GCC, and then we need to bootstrap gcc10 first to be able to install anything else, but Fink apparently uses Perl, which should work just fine on anything. MacPorts (tcl-based) works on all systems from 10.4 up. What got broken here?
@nieder @cooljeanius Could you say if there are some stopping issues to prevent the current Fink from working on PowerPC?
Configure script has this:
fink/perlmod/Fink/Bootstrap.pm
Lines 187 to 194 in 4e9a4d7
I can understand that Homebrew is a pain to fix, since it needs a modern Ruby, which needs a modern GCC, and then we need to bootstrap gcc10 first to be able to install anything else, but Fink apparently uses Perl, which should work just fine on anything. MacPorts (tcl-based) works on all systems from 10.4 up. What got broken here?