On Sep 11, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com > wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin Costabel wrote: >> Jack Howarth wrote: >>> Daniel and Benjamin, >>> I've been pondering switching my efforts over to >>> MacPorts for awhile now since it is obvious that the >>> X11 Xquartz situation is going to be very problematic >>> for fink in the absence of manpower to maintain a proper >>> set of X11 packages in fink. >> >> I shall not comment on the personal animosity part of this >> discussion (I >> actually understand both sides, with slightly more sympathy for >> Jack's >> points). >> >> But as to X11 on Snow Leopard: Once the transition is really over >> (and >> this is far from done yet!), I think we can safely forget about >> xquartz >> and possible Fink X11 packages, at least until Apple starts doing >> crazy >> things again. I won't bet on how long this will take, but we should >> be >> safe at least for a couple of months. >> >> Xquartz had two purposes that for a while went hand in hand: >> >> First it was simply a bug fix release for Apple's rather botched X11 >> release on Leopard. >> >> Second, it was interesting for people who wanted the bleeding edge >> Xorg >> X11 on their Mac. >> >> As of the latest declarations about the role and structure of X11 >> on SL, >> the second role is the only one that will remain. >> >> On the other hand, for the large majority of people, it was the first >> role that was interesting. And the same thing holds for Fink users. >> On >> SL, most of the bugs of Leopard X11 are fixed, thanks to the xquartz >> project. >> >> So we should concentrate on a future with Apple's SL X11. Let >> Macports >> spend their energy on bleeding edge X11 packages. >> > > Agreed. > > We'll have some users that carp about this, of course, but they're > free > to tweak their package descriptions and rebuild against whatever X11 > they want, locally. > Actually, they won't be able to do that so easily, if xqusrtz doesn't use /usr/X11. But that may be for the best. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
