Beginner's problems with old hardware

[Hangglider]

On 15.07.22 01:04, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Installing Ports on Sorbet Leopard went fine, but as everything (except
>> App packages) is installed in /var/local,
>
> It's /opt/local by default.

Sure, my fault. I know, it's not /usr/local as expected, so I see myself
trying to look there occasionally - but slowly getting used to it ;)

>> how is it possible to provide
>> some of the system packages with fresh frameworks, most important, SSL?
>> I'd need that for Mail (even TenFourBird doesn't work) and a working
>> browser...
>>
>> Is there a good guideline on how to get all that running? Its somehow
>> complicated to start. If there's any help, hint or howto, please notify
>> me.
>
> MacPorts doesn't attempt to provide any way to update the Apple software on your Mac. Instead, it provides a way to install other software that is hopefully more up-to-date than what Apple provided.
>
> I'm not sure if we have any good GUI mail clients or web browsers in MacPorts. These are typically large projects which have been difficult to build. We used to have thunderbird and firefox ports but they were removed because they were out of date and we were not able to update them. Tickets have been filed requesting that they be re-added but to my knowledge no work has been done about that:
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63175
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63174
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63219
>
> If you or anyone feels motivated to work on that please do!

Helping on some of the topics is fine, but I fear Mozilla is bit outside
what I like to dive into... let's see what comes.