Here is the response I got from Jeremy Huddleston who does the
Xquartz releases. Note that waiting on a Xquartz release for
SL won't help since all of Xquartz's X11 files will be relocated
in /opt to allow it to survive system software updates.
Jack
ps We could take the MacPorts option and create an X11 package but
I for one don't want to be reasonable for that time sinkhole.
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Subject: Re: X11 2.4.0 beta for SL?
From: Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]>
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:06:15 -0700
To: Jack Howarth <[email protected]>
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On Aug 28, 2009, at 23:15, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Jeremy,
> Is there any chance that you could post a beta
> of Xquartz 2.4.0 for SL in the next few weeks.
No, there will be no 2.4.0 for SL.
> Apparently
> folks are trying to upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard
> and update fink in place. This is producing breakage if
> the user had X11 2.4.0 installed under Leopard and had
> built packages against it (due to the newer libraries).
And the 2.4.1 for SL will NOT solve this problem. The X11 updates for SL
will be installed in a separate prefix to not conflict. The only thing
that will "fix" that would be a SU, but I doublt fontconfig will be
included in a SU since it does not include critical changes.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
> A beta would relieve the pressure from users to create
> a set of fink X11 packages based on 2.4.0 (which seems
> like a real waste of programming resources).
That's what I did for MacPorts, and it made life a whole lot easier, since
we didn't need to worry about different versions of X11 installed on
different versions of the OS (especially wrt Tiger compatability).
> Thanks in
> advance for considering this.
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