Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007 10:01 AM, Peter O'Gorman <email@hidden> wrote:
>> It would never have been ready if it was not released though. Ben would
>> be fixing bugs in the older X11, and working on the other portions of
>> his job. Jeremey, Nathan, Nathaniel and others would not be putting in
>> so much effort into fixing the problems. We'd be stuck with the tiger
>> X11 forever.
>
> I've tried to avoid second-guessing and lingering on the past, but
> I'll just say that if Leopard had shipped with Tiger's X11 and a
> dialog popped up on first launch saying "we're switching to X.org --
> come help us!" I would have jumped at the chance. But as they say,
> hindsight is 20/20. I'm quite happy with the job Ben has done of
> resolving the worst of the problems and making timely releases. It's
> not 100% solid yet, but it's getting better all the time.
Maybe help from the community should have been sought more, prior to the
release, and we'd have had a better X11 in the stock Leopard.
Ernie did post both here and to darwin-dev, though it was a while ago:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2005/Dec//msg00084.htmlhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2006/Feb/msg00033.htmlhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2006/Apr/msg00054.html
As you say though, it is getting better, thanks, in part, to your help.
Peter
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