PPCPorts: the only ports you ever need on a PowerPC

[barracuda156]

I assume something like this should work to wrap each patch in? #if defined(MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_4)

Could you open an issue or PR draft? Let move all technicalities there. What you want to use in such cases are macros from /usr/AvailabilityMacros.h.

It's in better shape than python 3.9 on Macports in my experience.

MacPorts started throwing py39-* ports out, so that is not a sustainable option anyway.

Unfortunate about the port.pkg and port.mpkg. I will try building curl in opt/bootstrap on the other Powerbook with a 2.10.7 compiled from source at some point. Then I can distribute that curl.
I would like to distribute the base at some point, but it is more important to distribute modern curl, imo.

I agree, since it is obviously much faster to build the base than to bootstrap curl for it.

That is one of the killer features of PowerPC ports - fetching source by hand is annoying at best. I assume to distribute the base I do sudo port mdmg Macports?

I always used pkg and just archived that. Either will do (provided it works on 10.4).

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We should work on making a sensible list of working apps, since I think nobody is aware of what we got working (and there are a lot of ports which do not exist in MacPorts at all).