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How come that MacPorts supports macOS versions all the way back to 10.5 Leopard in the latest version?

• sethaurus 20d ago
  That's an excellent question for the maintainers of the MacPorts project! It can supplement the very clear and polite answer you've already received from a maintainer of Homebrew.
  • vor_ 20d ago
    The polite Homebrew project that used to market themselves with "MacPorts driving you to drink?" on their website.
• kps 20d ago
  Different philosophy of dependency management.
• isityettime 20d ago
  Breadth of support and retention of historical support are also priorities that differ between other software distributions, especially free operating systems. See Debian vs. Ubuntu, or NetBSD vs. DragonflyBSD. Some software distributions emphasize package freshness and coverage, like Homebrew does, which multiplies the support burden involved for each architecture or platform supported. Others have a more prominent focus on backwards compatibility or exotic architectures, but have a smaller or slower-moving package set.
• frumplestlatz 20d ago
  They've never actively disallowed it, and volunteers have been happy to maintain it.