Please apply the fix in whatever way is easiest. dan
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:21:18AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > Here is a message from the maintainer of the xquartz updates to the > x11-users list. The message means that the breakage of tcltk will be > over as soon as xquartz-2.3.1 comes out. > > OTOH, the patch for tcltk I proposed will change *strictly nothing* when > tcltk is compiled with any X11 different from xquartz-2.3.0, but it > fixes the current breakage with xquartz-2.3.0, so there is still a > reason to go ahead with it. > > There are people currently waiting for this fix, because all their > Fink-installed software that uses Tk does not work. > > Martin > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: Re: Incompatibility with Tk (Was Re: More release 2.3.0 problems) > > Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:14:03 -0700 > > From: Jeremy Huddleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Jamie Kennea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CC: Apple X11 Users' List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > FTR, I'm going to revert the upstream changes to X.h and Xproto.h in > > 2.3.1, so if for some reason you need/want GenericEvent... well... > > you'll have to wait until other software plays nicely with it. > > > > --Jeremy > > > > On Jul 27, 2008, at 12:06, Jamie Kennea wrote: > > > >> > >> On 27 Jul 2008, at 2:57 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > >> > >>> Oh, I wouldn't say that. Changing an API that's been stable for 20 > >>> years doesn't strike me as having been a good design decision. The > >>> correct way to think about this is not "Apple broke Tk", it is > >>> "Apple broke an unknowably large number of applications, of which > >>> Tk is the first to be reported". > >> > >> X.org made the change, Apple just moved to the latest version of > >> X.org which contained this issue. Given this I'm willing to give > >> Apple (i.e. Jeremy) the benefit of the doubt here before blaming > >> them for this. > >> > >> Jamie > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
