If projects are portable and continue to work without patching indefinitely: we don't consider them dead. What we're unwilling to do is to apply patch after pat

If projects are portable and continue to work without patching indefinitely: we don't consider them dead. What we're unwilling to do is to apply patch after patch to unmaintained and undeveloped projects to keep them working on macOS; at that point we're forking the project and lack either the desire nor people power to do so.