Having opened this can of worms (sorry), may I add two humble suggestions:
1. Roll-your-own X11, I agree, would best be avoided. Instead, let's take advantage of the stability of X11 in 10.6. My understanding from Jeremy, once he got done working me over, was that the idea is to have a comparatively immutable system X11 that resides in /usr/X11 and won't get clobbered, and then "unofficial" updates can go elsewhere, presumably /opt. The SL-supplied X11.app seems perfectly adequate, so why not take advantage of the stability and insist all fink packages simply stick to /usr/X11 (which is presumably the path of least action (in the classical limit)). Many of us updated X11.app on 10.5 because the original one supplied with 10.5.0 was a mess. Now it is cleaned up, as far as I can tell. 2. The 10.6 64-bit tree of fink is in a situation where things in "unstable" work but in "stable" don't (older versions, no gfortran 4.4, etc). Maybe this is a good chance to move everything en masse that works into stable. > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:07:19 -0400 > From: Jack Howarth > Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] SL X11.app regressions relative to X11.app > 2.4.0 > To: fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <20090829060719.ga19...@bromo.med.uc.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > My own instinct is that (considering the lack of > manpower in fink these days) rolling our own X11 is > only asking for trouble. Also do we know for certain > that there won't be beta releases of a Xquartz > release for Snow Leopard much sooner than that? I would > think our resources would be better utilized by focusing > on the x86_64 transition. > Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
