One might suppose there are still people for which the standalone packaging of Xquartz might be preferable - people that for whatever reason, don't want to deal with the extra steps involved in installing MacPorts (including installing Xcode plus command line tools), let alone updating it, and don't think they'd want any of the other packages it offers.
> On Nov 24, 2018, at 06:58, Christopher Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> On Nov 23, 2018, at 10:13 PM, Randolph M. Fritz <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> No, they don't. It's been open-sourced. Up to High Sierra, at least, it >>> works. There hasn't been a formal release since two years ago October, so >>> I'm wondering about Mojave. >>> -- > > > Apple have not supported (i.e. shipped with the OS) X11 or Xquartz for some > time now. > > Note that the version of Xquartz from www.xquartz.com > <http://www.xquartz.com/> is in fact just a packaging of the MacPorts version > ! In fact, the maintainer of the Xquartz releases has stated that they may > well no longer make releases there, and only maintain the MacPorts provided > version (via the xorg-server port) going forward. > > I have exclusively used the MacPorts port for a number of years now, and it > works flawlessly, on all OSes including 10.14. I recommend switching to it, > if you currently are running the Xquartz installer version. > > Chris > >>> Randolph M. Fritz || +1 206 659-8617 || [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 9:59 PM Fred Weinhaus <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> I use Xquartz on my Mac OSX Sierra just fine. But I got it from >>> https://www.xquartz.org <https://www.xquartz.org/>. I do not think Apple >>> supports X11 any longer, only Quartz. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 23, 2018, at 9:52 PM, Randolph M. Fritz <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Does Xquartz still work? or MacPorts X11? Or…? >>>> -- >>>> Randolph M. Fritz || +1 206 659-8617 || [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >> >
