Re: Xcode 11.4 and parallel development of Fink packages

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 13:00, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 3/25/20 1:22 PM, David Axler wrote:
>> Apple has just released Xcode 11.4
>> This version requires macOS 10.15.2 or later for use, according to its entry at the App Store.
>> Many Fink users have, for a variety of reasons, chosen not to move from Mojave to Catalina,
>> and will thus be prevented from using this new release.
>> What are the plans of the Fink development/support community in this regard?
>> Will packages have parallel versions for Mojave and Catalina, or will support for Fink under Mojave
>> be phased out?
> 
> Fink currently supports macOS 10.9-10.15 and their various Xcode releases. There are no current plans to force users to the latest macOS (I'm still on 10.13 for a variety of software reasons), so older users will be able to continue using Fink on these older systems and should try to use the latest Xcode release available for their particular macOS version.
> 
> Also, most Fink packages available on Catalina are also available on older systems (generally it's older packages that no longer build on new OS releases that are phased out).
> 
> Hanspeter
> 
> 
> _

As a related note, Apple almost always stops updating Xcode for older versions of the OS other than the latest-released one.  That actually makes things a bit easier, because it means that older OS versions have a stable set of build tools.

—Akh

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