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. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
