[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.0-rc1

[Jamie Kennea]

Hi,

How about a version for those of us that are smart enough to reinstall  
when 10.5.3 comes out? Or is there a work around so I can install it  
on 10.5.2?

Or do I not have too long to wait for 10.5.3. ;)

Jamie

On May 12, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> I've just finished uploading the first release candidate for the  
> next X11 package installer.  You can find it here:
>
> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/X11-2.3.0_rc1.pkg
>
> Some notes (IMPORTANT, READ ME!!!):
> The installer requires 10.5.3, so if you don't have access to a seed  
> of 10.5.3, you'll have to wait until release.  This package doesn't  
> "really" need 10.5.3, but I don't want people to install the 10.5.3  
> OS update after this package and then forget to reinstall X11  
> because it will cause some issues due to the new startup mechanism  
> (you'll loose the X11 menus, etc).
>
> As of 2.3.0-rc1, the server bits are actually located in the  
> bundle. /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz is just a stub that "does the right  
> thing" to start the server (for now, it's just doing an exec(), but  
> it will be done via Mach-IPC in the future).  This allowed us to  
> clean out all the extra cruft we had in xinit.  There are some side- 
> effects to note:
>
> If you copied or moved your X11.app bundle from its default  
> location, you will need to update the copy with the new one after  
> installation.  If you don't, you run the risk that /usr/X11/bin/ 
> Xquartz will find the old one and you'll see messages to Console.app  
> indicating this.  If X11 fails to start after updating to 2.3.0,  
> this is the most likely culprit.  Check Console.app for debugging  
> messages that will tell you the location of X11.app that Xquartz is  
> finding.
>
> You will not be able to use any of the Xquartz binaries from  
> previous releases with this release, and visa-versa.  That is why I  
> haven't made an updated binary drop for a while.  From now on,  
> you'll need to grab X11-1.4.0-appleXX.bz2 and drop it over / 
> Applications/Utilities/X11.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 rather than  
> updating /usr/X11/bin/Xquartz.
>
> ChangeLog:
> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/ChangeLog
>
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