[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.2.0_rc1

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Mar 28, 2008, at 15:40, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> Most people, perhaps, but there will be enough others. I was  
> thinking of people reading your original announcement:
>
>> This is a *FULL* release, not just an update.  You can install this  
>> if you have no existing X11 on your system
>
> I, for one, read this and moved my original /usr/X11 aside before  
> installing 2.2.0-rc1. I suspect others will have done the same.

Ok.  I will append this to mention the removal of xmkmf and imake.

> Plus, this will be the only full X11 available for download, so  
> there will be many using this for a fresh install of X11 instead of  
> the one from their Leopard system disks they can't find any more.

Unlike on Tiger, X11 is enabled by default on Leopard, BTW.

> You certainly remember having seen several people on the x11-users  
> list who even tried to install the X11User.pkg for OSX 10.3 on 10.4  
> or 10.5, just because it is currently the only X11 available for  
> download from Apple.

Sigh, yes.  Hopefully we can get a Tiger pkg eventually as well... but  
I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment just dealing with Leopard.

--Jeremy

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