Re: Tiger Virtual Machine on VirtualBox

2017-06-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 26, 2017, at 10:22, Ken Cunningham wrote: > Perhaps of interest, the developer who set this Tiger VM up is one of the > developers of cairo. He did it specifically so cairo could continue to > support 10.4 Tiger well into the future. So it appears the request Ryan added > to the cairo po

Re: Tiger Virtual Machine on VirtualBox

2017-06-26 Thread Ken Cunningham
Perhaps of interest, the developer who set this Tiger VM up is one of the developers of cairo. He did it specifically so cairo could continue to support 10.4 Tiger well into the future. So it appears the request Ryan added to the cairo portfile to have people express interest if they use it on 1

Re: Tiger Virtual Machine on VirtualBox

2017-05-02 Thread Joshua Root
On 2017-4-23 10:34 , Ken Cunningham wrote: I know some of you are interested in such things, at times… debugging MacPorts, trying out a port, etc. A Tiger VM more or less works, with a few touchy parts that may or may not improve over time, on the current version of VirtualBox.

Re: Tiger Virtual Machine on VirtualBox

2017-04-22 Thread Ken Cunningham
A few tidbits to make life much easier for anyone who wants to try MacPorts on a TigerVM. Last XCode for Tiger was 2.5. Tiger’s Safari is pretty useless due to security inadequacies, but TenFourFox-G3 version runs passably well under Rosetta, and connects to current https websites. There is no