[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.1_rc3

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Fri Aug 29 16:51:38 PDT 2008


Jack,

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On Aug 29, 2008, at 16:47, Jack Howarth wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:34:09AM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 29, 2008, at 06:42, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>
>>> Jeremy,
>>>   My previous posting to the xquartz-dev list seems to have
>>> gotten lost. Why exactly are you reintroducing libGLw back into
>>> X11 on Leopard? I thought Apple explicitly removed libGLw
>>> from X11 because they don't ship Motif.
>>
>> I decided to ship a version of libGLw that doesn't depend on Motif to
>> satisfy those of you who were negatively affected by the lack of  
>> libGLw
>> before.
>>
>> I would actually prefer not to ship it because I don't want to  
>> really be
>> responsible for it, but it build in Mesa-7.1, and I remembered some
>> people complaining about it being gone, so I decided to throw it into
>> the rc and see if the fish bit.  ;)
>>
>>> On fink, I have
>>> created mesa-libglw packages using variants for lesstif,
>>> openmotif3 and openmotif4. Since the headers used from
>>> Motif by libGLw are not identical across the various motif
>>> releases, Apple's original decision to depreciate out
>>> libGLw was technically correct.You might want to rethink
>>> the decision to reintroduce libGLw back into X11 on Leopard.
>>>                 Jack
>>
>> This hasn't been shipped final yet (it's only in this RC).  I'll  
>> pretty
>> much leave it up to you all here in xquartz-dev... so if anyone has a
>> reason to keep it in, speak up... otherwise it gets the boot for  
>> good.
>>
>> --Jeremy
>>
>
> Jeremy,
>    I sent any email about this to xquartz-dev but no one has
> ever processed my mailing list subscription so all my emails
> are held for review. Can you fix that?
>                     Jack

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