Jeremyhu is listed as the maintainer of xorg-server on MacPorts.
does he spend more time working on that than XQuartz?
David
> On Aug 30, 2018, at 2:51 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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> 4. Re: Is XQuartz development abandoned? (Filhol Alain)
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 23:51:01 +0200
> From: Filhol Alain <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Is XQuartz development abandoned?
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> Here the answer I got from Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia on 02 Feb 2017.
> I think we can be real pessimistic concerning X11 on macOS.
>
>> [AF] A question about slow dialogues with OpenMotif and XQuartz (much slower
>> than with Linux).
>>
>> [JHS] <[email protected]>
>> There is a known issue there, I believe with Yosemite and newer versions of
>> macOS (maybe Mavericks+, maybe ElCap+, I forget exactly). The issue is
>> below us in CoreGraphics and won't really be fixed on Apple's side as doing
>> so would fix this case but cause bad performance penalties for every single
>> other case out there. The real solution is to get XQuartz off of libXplugin
>> and start using more modern macOS APIs (eg: finishing up libxcwm), but
>> there's not really anyone actively working on that right now.
>>
>> [AF] Are you the only one involved in XQuartz developments ?
>>
>> [JHS] Yes, and I spend significantly less than 1% of my time on it ...
>> barely enough to just pull in upstream changes, build, and ship.
>>
>> [AF] [...] but people are reluctant in using them on Macintoshes because of
>> that problem of slowness.
>>
>> [JHS] If you're interested in working on the replacement, I can point you in
>> the right direction. It's maybe 60% done ... all by a group of college
>> seniors at PSU.
>>
>> --Jeremy
>
>
> Alain
>
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