Re: Xquartz version change?
Re: Xquartz version change?
- Subject: Re: Xquartz version change?
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:26:47 +0100
Chip Griffin wrote:
I am extremely confused. What does Fink have to do with any of this? I
don't see a single Fink call, which means it should have nothing to do
with the reported version number. Just confused.
I'm a little confused, too, with all the top-posting and mixed
top-bottom-posting suddenly going on on this list, where after a while
you can't tell any more who is responding to whom and what about.
Anyway, Fink is appearing in this thread as a user, or as a community of
users, of X11 that gets confused - if only in a very mild way - by the
change of version numbers.
Let me summarize:
Fink wants to know the version of X11 installed, in order to make a
virtual package representing the installed X11. This is so that Fink
packages that need a specific version of X11 will know if it is
installed or not. As with all decent version numbers, this one should
increase with time.
Fink currently tries a couple of different methods to find this version
number: Until Tiger, there were a couple of man pages in
/usr/X11R6/man/man1 that had usable Version lines, for example xterm.1,
bdftruncate.1, gccmakedep.1. These had lines like
.TH XTERM 1 Version\ 4.4.0 XFree86
from which a version "4.4" could be extracted. Only as a last resort, `X
-version -iokit` was run to get a version string. On Leopard, none of
these man pages has a usable version string. They all show uniformly "X
Version 11", which is not of a high informative value. And now suddenly
`X -version` does not give the version of the installed X11 any more,
either.
The one and only file that now still has the "7.2" version string is
/usr/X11/include/xorg/xorg-server.h:
/* Vendor release */
#define XORG_RELEASE "Release 7.2"
/* Current Xorg version */
#define XORG_VERSION_CURRENT (((7) * 10000000) + ((2) * 100000) + ((0) *
1000) + 0)
And then there is /usr/X11/lib/X11/config/xorgversion.def which has
#define XORG_VERSION_MAJOR 6
#define XORG_VERSION_MINOR 8
#define XORG_VERSION_PATCH 99
#define XORG_VERSION_SNAP 903
#define XORG_DATE "03 December 2005 + cvs"
--
Martin
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