Hi Perry:
I've never encountered an instability with Applex X11.app, so I can't comment on that, but there also exist some advantages (apart from convenience), depending upon your needs.
In my case the most important advantage is the quartz acceleration of the (proprietary) window manager. For complicated molecular graphics displays (pymol, molmol, etc), the non-quartz versions are so slow on my G4s that they are essentially unusable, whereas the X11.app quartz acceleration makes them almost indistinguishable from true native OS X graphics display programs.
I think there are two disadvantages. The first is that it is proprietary, so free software purists will object. But free software purists most likely run GNU-Linux or freeBSD or similar rather than OS X. The other is the fact that the user has to know to install separately the ~4MB SDK package, which doesn't install by default. I think most of the problems people have with fink trying to install its own X11 derives from the perverse separation of X11 into a 50MB package and a 4 MB package, as if installing a 54 MB package would somehow inconvenience some users. If fink could be made to detect the presence of /Applications/Utilities/X11.app and the absence of header files and somehow warn the user to install manually the SDK, or better yet, somehow offer to install it from the on-line download, it might go smoother.
Bill Scott
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