Re: upgrading just Xquartz?
Re: upgrading just Xquartz?
- Subject: Re: upgrading just Xquartz?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:17:50 -0800
On Dec 7, 2007, at 15:57, Jack Howarth wrote:
Is it still supported to just upgrade the Xquartz from
the original Leopard install?
Yes, but then you are not getting the libX11 update, fixes to /A/U/
X11.app/C/M/X11, etc.
While I applaud the idea of
Apple leveraging the X.org community for additional programming
support, it is very worrisome that we are forking here between
the Apple's x.org and the commmunity version.
We're not forking per-se. Apple will likely be cherry-picking from
the community releases to determine what to include in their official
releases. Apple is a member of the community in this sense. This is
not a fork at all. In fact, I think we'll probably be supporting the
2.1.x branch as a minimal-updates-from-leopard package to facilitate
this while pushing forward with 2.2, 2.3, etc as things progress at
which point that later release will likely become the base for what is
included in 10.6, etc.
Again, I don't work for Apple, so don't quote me on knowing anything
about anything... This is just my hope and I am thrilled to see Apple
taking such an active role in the open-source X11 community.
Specifically, I
attempted to deinstall the 2.1.0.1 release earlier today on
one machine and then reinstall the original packages from
the Leopard DVD. I deleted all of the x11 plist files before
reinstalling as well as the X11 directories. However this
still left me with a mangled X11.app that wouldn't run properly
(claiming it couldn't find a display).
I think you need to restart because of some launchd-isms. I noticed
that unloading then loading org.x.X11.plist wasn't sufficient.
Things could quite
easily get out of hand from a support viewpoint if the process
for regressing back to Apple's X11 version in Leopard isn't
tested and well documented.
Well, officially, all you need to do to regress to the leopard version
is install the .pkg and restart.
We don't want Leopard to become
as unstable as the worst hobbyist releases of Linux.
I doubt that will ever be the case.
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