Re: MacOS Classic support (finally) gone from CVS *sigh*

From: Andreas Leitgeb (avl_at_gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: 31 Mar 2004 08:31:27 GMT

Daniel A. Steffen <steffen@maths.mq.edu.au> wrote:
> Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> I hereby publicly offer a 50 Euro-donation for some local charity
>> organisation (my favourite: http://www.rotenasen.at/ - in german
>> language, though), if someone still running a classic MacOS with
>> development environment could make available one latest MacOS-
>> Classic-binary distribution (Tcl+Tk 8.5a1) that would still be
>> able to run on MacOS 8.0 till 9.x

>> Most likely it's not worth the effort to keep it up for years to come,
>> but I hoped that the effort of compiling *one* last (unofficial) binary
>> distri would not be all that much.
> I think you most likely are wrong about that...
> [building for Classic-Mac *is* much effort: likely more than a man-week]
Hmm, I almost feared so...

> so it is not like this was a sudden surprising decision; anyone
> genuinely interested in the mac classic port ...
My interest in the Classic-Mac port is definitely not "genuine" enough.

In the unlikely case, that someone else (for whatever reason) still
takes the hassles to build one, my original offer still stands :-)

I just won't hold my breath, though.