Thank you, Jeremy. The Github repo is a huge help--a lot of people will be able to contribute that way.
I suppose many people assume that XQuartz is an Apple-sponsored project (myself included), but from what you're saying--it isn't. The truth is, ever since ICS LGPL'ed Motif 2.3.4, I'm rather jealous of Red Had, Fedora, and Ubuntu, who have those binaries available: https://motif.ics.com/motif https://motif.ics.com Total newbie question here: rather than fixing extant bugs in "X.Org XQuartz", is trying to build a "Motif XQuartz" a realistic option? And what about Motif licensing issues? Apple released the quartz-wm window manager under Apple Public Source License Version 2. Presumably Motif's window manager (mwm) and other executables available from a Motif 2.3.4 build (uil, xmbind) would have to remain LGPL. Does LGPL "play well" with X.Org's many licenses (available below)? https://www.x.org/archive/current/doc/xorg-docs/License.html Best Regards, Bill. W. Michels, Ph.D. On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:02 PM Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem is that there aren't really any "XQuartz people" to do this since > I now have 2 kids and nobody's really volunteered to work on this in my > absence. I started working on a new build system to build a newer package > but haven't gotten much farther than setting up a git repo with all the > submodules and starting to work on a build script: > > https://github.com/XQuartz/XQuartz > > If anyone wants to help with that, it'd surely go a long way to actually > getting a newer release out. =) > > --Jeremy > > > On Aug 23, 2019, at 05:14, William Michels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Chris (and Jeremy), > > > > Thank you for your post. So there's a bug in xquartz that's been > > around since 2017 that's affecting the High Performance Computing > > Center at the University of Edinburgh? > > > > https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/blog/2017/05/24/x-windows-and-xquartz-archer > > > > I checked bugzilla and see 1. that the bug is marked as "resolved", > > and 2. that there's a patch available: > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96260 > > > > It would be great if the XQuartz people could release a binary (DMG) > > that includes the patch. I can see a lot of people still being > > affected by this, and not knowing about a resolution via the MacPorts > > version. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bill. > > > > W. Michels, Ph.D. > > > > > > > >> Message: 2 > >> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 03:42:09 +0100 > >> From: Chris Jones <[email protected]> > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: X11 errors with Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04.3 > >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Known issue, many discussions on the web, e.g. > >> > >> https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/blog/2017/05/24/x-windows-and-xquartz-archer > >> > >> Also, Note xquartz from > >> > >> https://www.xquartz.org/ > >> > >> Is effectively no longer maintained and out of date. Instead the > >> recommendation is now to install it via MacPorts > >> > >> https://www.macports.org/ > >> > >> sudo port install xorg-server > >> > >> Chris > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
