ease installing xquartz
ease installing xquartz
- Subject: ease installing xquartz
- From: Fred Lakin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:54:58 -0800
I thought the Xquartz install was remarkably easy. And it worked.
My old system was a Tiger 10.4.11 macbook2,1 -- where one of my last
acts was to compile X11 emacs 22.3 -- and then I moved that binary to
a ML 10.8.0 MacBookPro9,1 with Xquartz where emacs just worked (as
did CLX under CMUCL, yay again). Very cool.
I can only imagine the ... ummm ... really fun? time Jeremy and the
others must have in balancing all the conflicts, technical and
political and economic, to keep Xquartz alive and well in the Apple
neighborhood. Thanks so much. Your effort lets me continue with a
project now over 20 years on the same software platform and
Apple/OSX too, freeing me up to fight the domain specific problems
of my own choosing.
Jamie wrote:
jk> From: Jamie Kennea <email@hidden>
jk> Seriously, thanks to Jeremy any everyone else for keeping X11
jk> alive on Macs, it's an essential tool for my work and fully
jk> worth the 3 minutes and 16 clicks. Jamie
What he said.
regs,
-f
fred lakin
http://makinggraphicsdolisp.org
Brandon wrote:
ba> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:11:09 -0500
ba> From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
ba> To: "James K. Lowden" <email@hidden>
ba> Cc: email@hidden
ba> Subject: Re: problems installing xquartz
ba> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:22 AM, James K. Lowden
ba> <email@hidden>wrote:
ba>
jkl> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:34:09 -0800
jkl> Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <email@hidden> wrote:
jkl> > > X11 is open source software, so are all those license agreements
jkl> > > really necessary?
jkl> > Yes, OSS has licenses.
jkl> Yes, OSS has licenses, but not End User License Agreements. No open
ba> I think Jeremy does not get to dictate to the team maintaining the
ba> installer framework that his package should get to skip the license step.
ba>
ba> You're busy ascribing lots of negative stuff to lots of people at Apple;
ba> had it occurred to you that maybe the real problem is not malice and not
ba> stupidity but "insufficient justification to change this"? Like, maybe
ba> your use case is *not* a priority with Apple's management, no matter how
ba> much of a priority it may be for you?
ba>
ba> Likewise, your rather sharp question about decision making with respect to
ba> distributing X11. What makes you think Jeremy had any significant say in
ba> it? I rather suspect the decision was made by whoever is in charge of OS
ba> releases, at a much higher level in management. Being snotty at Jeremy
ba> about it (a) is pointless (b) just means he's going to be less inclined to
ba> help you find ways to work around it.
ba>
ba> --
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