Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Epson ET-M1140 Ecotank

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 07:15:40AM -0500, Matt Broughton wrote:
> Oops.  That should have read -- it was not possible to add the 
> dependencies to the Mac OS X system to allow Gutenprint to compile and 
> work.

IIRC the underlying reason we dropped PPC support is that Apple dropped 
PPC from their development tooling, as well as other 
packaging/requirement changes that meant we couldn't simultaneously 
support old (ancient?) versions of OSX and their current releases.

We'd have had to keep an old OSX system around to build for older 
releases, and a new one for the latest systesm.  Plus maintain multiple 
sets of packaging scripts/etc.

Now, none of that was inherently insurmountable.. but it did represent a 
non-trival amount of effort that we simply weren't able to 
undertake.  Heck, we can barely keep up with modern Apple.  :)

 - Solomon
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