Re: X11 2.2.2
Re: X11 2.2.2
- Subject: Re: X11 2.2.2
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:12:32 -0700
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2008, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>I'd like to announce that a new release of X11 for SnowLeopard is
>available. Version 2.2.2 is a security release to address some issues
>that were announced earlier this week. More details can be found in
>the X.org announcement and our release notes:
>
>http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2008-June/000578.html
>http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.2.2
>
>This release also contains the fix for monitor hotplugging, but no
>other changes currently in the 2.3.0 release candidates have been
>included.
>
>Please let me know if there are any problems, and thanks to those who
>tested this release.
I am a latecomer to Leopard, having just installed it yesterday on my
titanium Powerbook, updated to 10.5.3, and run Migration Assistant to bring
everything over from the old hard drive.
When I try to start X11, either by clicking X11 or starting an xterm from a
Terminal window, it just hangs. I am downloading this package now to see
if that fixes this problem.
My main reason for posting though isn't that, but in reaction to the
section ``Deprecated Software''. I strongly think that it is a very Bad
Idea(tm) to leave the imake and xmkmf out of the package as this breaks
packages that require these to build. It's not as though this part of X11
is huge or changes frequently.
Doing a quick check through the OpenPKG portable package management
system's packages, I find the following packages that use these, and there
are some others like ``ddd'' that I didn't see with this check.
magicpoint slide show
tightvnc
x11-ssh-askpass
xfig Vector Drawing
transfig Vector Drawing (used by xfig)
viewfax fast tiff/f fax viewer
xaw3d
xpm
Of these, I use xfig/transfig and viewfax frequently.
Bill
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