-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Costabel wrote: > 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. >
Agreed. We'll have some users that carp about this, of course, but they're free to tweak their package descriptions and rebuild against whatever X11 they want, locally. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqqcXUACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9PlwCfTe7frA6DJLyiubI8RzYtOcXA CFsAmwWih6DNXEsgfguHKrxkOZ/R1+PJ =COwO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
