X11 in Macports

[Anders F Björklund]

Joshua Root wrote:

>> Does the XFree86 port actually function?  It didn't even build last I
>> tried (granted it was over a year ago, but there doesn't seem to have
>> been much movement on the port)... and the xorg port is using a  
>> codebase
>> from 3 years ago and hasn't been touched since 2007-08-10...
>
> Some people are apparently using the XFree86 port on PureDarwin.

I've used XFree86 4.5.0 and XFree86 4.7.0 successfully with Darwin 8
(Darwin 7 came bundled with a system XFree86 4.3.0, so didn't need it)

I *think* PureDarwin.org and Darwin 9 are looking to upgrade to X.Org
eventually, but that it is not yet working with IOKit without Quartz ?

--anders