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
> 
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