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Re: scitech digest, Vol 2 #629 - 8 msgs



So what solution gives people good access to X11 packages that vendors don't port to Aqua on OS X? Apple's Frameworks don't support e.g. OpenGL on X11. You have to have a separate library for that. Most people aren't going to want to port their X11 Unix codes to Aqua, so it's not realistic to even suggest that as a solution.
In fact, Apple's X11 installs into /usr/X11R6; is that Apple violating its own policies or just following good common sense?


On Jan 26, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Chris Adams wrote:

On Jan 26, 2004, at 10:04, Rich Cook wrote:
this sounds more like a rant against fink's habit of putting things in
/sw instead of /usr/local...  if fink put things in /usr/local, you'd
have a pretty "vanilla" arrangement, no?

No - the big problem is library versions. The fink maintainers tend to ship bleeding-edge everything which is good from a developer's perspective but it may introduce unnecessary binary distribution problems - annoyingly the dependencies are frequently unnecessary because few programs actually depend new features which aren't present in the version Apple supplied.

Chris

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References: 
 >Re: scitech digest, Vol 2 #629 - 8 msgs (From: Bill Northcott <email@hidden>)
 >Re: scitech digest, Vol 2 #629 - 8 msgs (From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>)
 >Re: scitech digest, Vol 2 #629 - 8 msgs (From: Chris Adams <email@hidden>)



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