Resolved Reconnect unsupported Leopard/Snow Leopard Macs to Dropbox

[barracuda156]

UPD. Okay, we have the port for `maestral` now: https://ports.macports.org/port/maestral

There are some caveats:

– There is no GUI, and likely there won’t be any (could be fixable, likely not to be trivial).
– We may need earlier versions for a couple of Python dependencies, if the current ones do not work. Not yet tested. This part should be easily fixable.

If anyone tries, please report what fails exactly. Failures are expected at the moment.

 

[Forest Expertise]

UPD. Okay, we have the port for `maestral` now: https://ports.macports.org/port/maestral

There are some caveats:

– There is no GUI, and likely there won’t be any (could be fixable, likely not to be trivial).
– We may need earlier versions for a couple of Python dependencies, if the current ones do not work. Not yet tested. This part should be easily fixable.

If anyone tries, please report what fails exactly. Failures are expected at the moment.

I know this is a bit of a necro post, but I figure I would report a failure for py310-watchdog on Tiger. I have checked for fallbacks at much of the comment history and cannot find a working one. I attached a log, since it would be great to get maestral working on Tiger if possible. If it is a Tiger incompatibility like libsdl2_mixer, it would be nice to know so other options can be explored for Dropbox.

 

[eyoungren]

I know this is a bit of a necro post, but I figure I would report a failure for py310-watchdog on Tiger. I have checked for fallbacks at much of the comment history and cannot find a working one. I attached a log, since it would be great to get maestral working on Tiger if possible. If it is a Tiger incompatibility like libsdl2_mixer, it would be nice to know so other options can be explored for Dropbox.

The only comment I can make here, is 'wow'. Four months after I signed off on Post #1, I went fully Intel. I certainly wish you luck, but it's been over a decade since this thread began.

 

[Forest Expertise]

The only comment I can make here, is 'wow'. Four months after I signed off on Post #1, I went fully Intel. I certainly wish you luck, but it's been over a decade since this thread began.

Thank you for the good wishes! Powerbooks are very good value for the money. For less than $100 I get a laptop that:
1. Has great compatibility with Hypercard and related applications, such as ReadySetGrow
2. Can burn CDs and DVDs. It can also read DVDs that are in too poor a condition for many other DVD players to read.
3. Has a responsive web browser with impressive compatibility, thanks to the wireless.
4. Can stream Twitch and YouTube, thanks to alexfree
5. Has an amazing 17" screen and great speakers for media viewing. Apple hasn't made 17" laptops for a very long time.
6. Has a modern email client (claws-mail) thanks in large part to barracuda156.
7. Has a 300 gb hard drive (obviously someone else installed this before I bought it)
8. Has desktop Microsoft Office for free with the install (at least mine did)
9. Can run fanless with G4 fan control and Reduced performance set on the control panel.

The next way to really improve it would be desktop clients for unsupported web services. Dropbox and Discord are some of the useful ones. Both work on Snow Leopard, to my understanding, but I am loath to give up backwards compatibility. Pandora is easily available even on Tiger.
If a 17" Apple laptop is a goal, one may as well do a PowerBook. One can always buy MorphOS if an up to date supported web browser is the top priority.

 

[barracuda156]

I know this is a bit of a necro post, but I figure I would report a failure for py310-watchdog on Tiger. I have checked for fallbacks at much of the comment history and cannot find a working one. I attached a log, since it would be great to get maestral working on Tiger if possible. If it is a Tiger incompatibility like libsdl2_mixer, it would be nice to know so other options can be explored for Dropbox.

filleferry works to access DropBox.

I won’t bother with watchdog, since fsevents are properly supported only since 10.7 (10.6 has some support, but incomplete).

 

[barracuda156]

I know this is a bit of a necro post, but I figure I would report a failure for py310-watchdog on Tiger. I have checked for fallbacks at much of the comment history and cannot find a working one. I attached a log, since it would be great to get maestral working on Tiger if possible. If it is a Tiger incompatibility like libsdl2_mixer, it would be nice to know so other options can be explored for Dropbox.

Dropbox will likely work via Ruby too. Seems to need some manual set-up: https://transloadit.com/devtips/exporting-files-to-dropbox-in-ruby-using-the-dropbox-sdk

 

[Matias_]

The next way to really improve it would be desktop clients for unsupported web services. Dropbox and Discord are some of the useful ones. Both work on Snow Leopard, to my understanding

Discord should be doable. I am not familiar with Tiger but the only problematic thing with the Abaddon Discord client on <10.6 as far as I know is miniaudio and that can be disabled by editing to portfile to turn off -DENABLE_NOTIFICATION_SOUNDS and -DENABLE_VOICE, this made it build for me on Leopard and it works fine. Maybe a fallback can be added to the portfile for <10.6. I would propose a pull request but I am really not confident enough in my own abilities. cc @barracuda156

Since you already got claws-mail working and Abaddon is just a simple GTK application, unless some dependency is broken I don't see why it wouldn't work. If all else fails you can try Dosdude1's discord-lite client.

 

[Forest Expertise]

Discord should be doable. I am not familiar with Tiger but the only problematic thing with the Abaddon Discord client on <10.6 as far as I know is miniaudio and that can be disabled by editing to portfile to turn off -DENABLE_NOTIFICATION_SOUNDS and -DENABLE_VOICE, this made it build for me on Leopard and it works fine. Maybe a fallback can be added to the portfile for <10.6. I would propose a pull request but I am really not confident enough in my own abilities. cc @barracuda156

Since you already got claws-mail working and Abaddon is just a simple GTK application, unless some dependency is broken I don't see why it wouldn't work. If all else fails you can try Dosdude1's discord-lite client.

Abaddon is a dependency issue: gtkmm3 and pango-1.4mm, if I remember correctly. No fallbacks that I can find. I even tried back when gtkmm3 depended on pangomm instead. Solutions like that sometimes work, but not in this case. The current version won't even begin to build, it gives the following error message: Error: Failed to configure pangomm-1.4: pango must be installed with +quartz. I still know very little about this, I started in May. I do have binary archives if other people are interested in Macports on Tiger and want to save compilation time.
I suspect you are right that Discord is viable on Tiger with abaddon. However, everywhere you look on Tiger there is a broken dependency. Fileferry has a broken dependency in libuseful (log attached). If that is an easy fix, great! If not, I will try to make sense of the Dropbox guidelines for using Ruby.

 

[barracuda156]

The current version won't even begin to build, it gives the following error message: Error: Failed to configure pangomm-1.4: pango must be installed with +quartz.

You should be able to build it without quartz then:

sudo port -v install pangomm-1.4 -quartz

It is just a default variant, not something strictly required.

P. S. I will push a provisional fix for `libUseful` (should solve reported error, but no idea if something else gonna fail later on).

 

[Forest Expertise]

You should be able to build it without quartz then:

sudo port -v install pangomm-1.4 -quartz

It is just a default variant, not something strictly required.

P. S. I will push a provisional fix for `libUseful` (should solve reported error, but no idea if something else gonna fail later on).

Both fixes work well. I built fileferry and gtkmm3 successfully. I will test file ferry to make sure it works when I have more time.

Discord should be doable. I am not familiar with Tiger but the only problematic thing with the Abaddon Discord client on <10.6 as far as I know is miniaudio and that can be disabled by editing to portfile to turn off -DENABLE_NOTIFICATION_SOUNDS and -DENABLE_VOICE, this made it build for me on Leopard and it works fine. Maybe a fallback can be added to the portfile for <10.6. I would propose a pull request but I am really not confident enough in my own abilities. cc @barracuda156

Since you already got claws-mail working and Abaddon is just a simple GTK application, unless some dependency is broken I don't see why it wouldn't work. If all else fails you can try Dosdude1's discord-lite client.

These are some great ideas which I suspect I did not implement well. I tried a build with a Portfile where I got rid of all mini audio related stuff. It failed. When I have more time I will implement them in a more nuanced way and hopefully that will work.
Good news to anyone searching this thread: file ferry should solve your Dropbox woes on 10.4-10.6 ppc (and possibly Google drive too)

 

[barracuda156]

@Forest Expertise Possibly I fixed AWS CLI v. 2 (for example, it can be used to access Linode object storage). I got no idea what are Tiger’s chances with that, it is a massive thing:

aws*: new ports in devel/security to support AWS Command Line Interface · macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports@e3d4691

Overlay repo with fixes to use with MacPorts on macOS PowerPC - aws*: new ports in devel/security to support AWS Command Line Interface · macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports@e3d4691

github.com

py-awscrt: fix broken port, update to 0.27.6 · macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports@0cf1bb7

Overlay repo with fixes to use with MacPorts on macOS PowerPC - py-awscrt: fix broken port, update to 0.27.6 · macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports@0cf1bb7

github.com

py-awscli2: unbreak the port, update to 2.28.11 · macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports@a726fa0

Overlay repo with fixes to use with MacPorts on macOS PowerPC - py-awscli2: unbreak the port, update to 2.28.11 · macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports@a726fa0

github.com

It is supposed to work on macOS 11+ (upstream and MacPorts). Too tired to test beyond absolute basics, but I am able to log in to Linode and list my bucket there now.