Re: X11-users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 252
Re: X11-users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 252
- Subject: Re: X11-users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 252
- From: Anthony D'Atri <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:11 -0700
Why does Apple have to make their system so different from other
systems?
Don't get me started about Apple and Java. I had to buy VMWare Fusion
so I can fire up an MSWXP virtual machine to run a web browser in to
use Sun's ILOM remote console app. The perversity of using an
emulator to run a tool to emulate a local USB CD-ROM drive across an
ocean is classic.
But I didn't come to talk about Alice, I'm here to talk about the
draft ...erm, X11.
I wasn't aware that "mere users" actually built software themselves
these days, but in any case, this debate is as dead as xmkmf.
This user does. Media types like to pretend that Fink and/or
Darwinports obviate this, but in reality both have limited
completeness and what they have tends to be way out of date. I
remember the XV binary on Fink being old, built without patches the
author had had up for years, and without various compile-time
options. I got him to fix some of that, but in the end I still had to
build my own binary to have it be usable.
Maybe current/actively-developed things don't use xmkmf, but there are
loads of dusty decks out there that haven't been updated in years that
rely on xmkmf.
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