back to Tiger?
back to Tiger?
- Subject: back to Tiger?
- From: x11apple <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
Folks --
My trusty old G4 is staggering on its feet, I can't find a good
used G4 for a decent price, and anyways time to upgrade to
Macintel. After watching this list, when I buy I'm considering
then immediately downgrading the new machine to Tiger for stable
X11 and fink support.
Here's why -- finally on the Panther G4 I have these all working
together: X11 and CMUCL and CLX and X11emacs and X11mozilla, the
parts then coordinated in a big lisp graphics app bundle written
by me. I need pretty seamless switching and communication
between the parts, especially between the CLX window and the
X11emacs since I use the emacs as a lisp listener. What enables
the UI is clickless focus-switching as controlled by me in the
lisp code.
Believe it or not this odd bundle/kludge is very steady and
reliable, I have used it 2 to 10 hours every day for 4 years, am
currently revising a 200 page book created in it.
(Yes I know there are probably other ways to accomplish whatever
it is I think (possibly delusionally) I am getting in this
special bundle/blend, which discussion I am happy to engage
privately in the future, but right now I want to save my energy
for re-writing the book).
HENCE Tiger.
With Tiger I get stable X11, plus fink support with X11emacs21
stable binary and X11mozilla stable binary. It looks like the
quickest easiest way to get my lisp graphics bundle up and
running reliably on a new machine.
What am I overlooking or don't understand?
Thanks,
-f
PS. I don't want to do any compiling/building of any "CVS/rsync
Source Distributions" or the like if can possibly avoid; hence
inordinate fondness for fink stable binaries.
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