Re: Is there anything I can do to make X11 stable enough to use on 10.5.2
Re: Is there anything I can do to make X11 stable enough to use on 10.5.2
- Subject: Re: Is there anything I can do to make X11 stable enough to use on 10.5.2
- From: William Scott <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:30:14 -0700
Hi Jordon:
Thanks again for the suggestions. Unfortunately (for me at least)
regression would usher in a whole other set of headaches.
On Mar 23, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Mar 22, 2008, at 11:05 PM, William G. Scott wrote:
I have a couple of machines that are still running 10.4.11 and X11
and the same software is stable on those. I haven't tried putting
that version of X11 on 10.5.
Considering the amount of heart-ache you appear to be having,
wouldn't you say that's at least worth trying?
No. Because (a) I would have to rebuild everything against the older
X11 libraries and (b) I have to use the same machines for maintaining
some fink packages, so I need to use the same X11 as 10.5.x end-users
of fink, and (c) on two of these I distribute pre-compiled fink
debians so this would hose ca. 100+ other people.
Besides, my head aches, not my heart. (The blood pressure, I am told,
is a silent killer.)
The fact that X11 is bundled with MacOSX (a decision who's wisdom
I'll admit to occasionally questioning) should not cause folks to
forget that it is, after all, 3rd party free software that can be
obtained from a variety of sources, various folks at Apple even
going out of their way to document how to install the XFree86 /
X.org incarnations, as that URL I provided demonstrates. So, it's
not like relatively straight-forward solutions do not exist, ne?
For the above reasons, they don't really exist. Also I've been using
X11 since the day it was introduced on OS X, and whatever the rootless
third-party X11 was called before them, and for me it has been
absolutely flawless until now. I'm one of the people who advocated for
making X11 a default install, and pushed for stereo in a window
support and all that stuff.
Also, I am not sure any of the 3rd party alternatives, such as the one
you used to be able to install with fink, are compatible with 10.5.
I'd rather just get the problem solved.
Thanks.
Bill
- Jordan
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