I moved to the MacPorts X server when I finally felt brave enough to switch to Catalina. It seems to work the same. I believe that it’s more recent than the XQuartz distribution - perhaps people in the know can comment?
I think this course of action was recommended some time back by Jeremy, who was responsible for XQuartz and is now shown as the MacPorts maintainer. Regards -------------------------------------------------- Peter Collinson > On 26 Jun 2020, at 08:53, René J.V. Bertin via X11-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday June 25 2020 22:25:16 Maximilian Ebert wrote: >> >> A pre-built would still be easier than compiling via macports etc. any >> reason why no-one make new binary bundles? > > MacPorts should provide binaries of the required ports (or at least you > shouldn't have to do anything more for installing them from source (supposing > you already have Xcode set up but your sig suggests that is already the case). > >> If someone ports X11 to new Mac ARM chips, would that make it easy to port >> to iPad as well? > > A priori only if the same drivers can be used one way or another, and of > course that port should benefit from any Apple/ARM specific performance > improvements (and potential issues related to endianness, of course). But all > that won't give you any more control over what you can install or not (or > should I say, what the average user can install, who doesn't jailbreak, > doesn't pay Apple a yearly fee or has a computing dept that takes care of > such matters). > > R. > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/pc%40hillside.co.uk > > This email sent to [email protected] >
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