[Xquartz-dev] 2.4.0_beta4 and beta5

[Peter Collinson]

Having done this on my G4 laptop = in somewhat less haste. I think  
that I have a diagnosis of what happened.

I got the automatic initial window with the spinning wait - but  
immediately pressed the Install button.

So the downloader was trying to get the info page from macosforge.org -
and presumably this was not cancelled by the Install Update button -  
and the download application remained active. Perhaps it kept trying  
and got in the way of the download?

On the laptop - I clicked Install and relaunch and the existing X11  
crashed.
I've got the crash log - and posted it as bug report on  
xquartz.macosforge.org.
That also happened on my PowerPC Imac.

On 20 Jul 2009, at 23:34, Peter Collinson wrote:

> I pulled beta4 - installed and got the Want to update? message. I  
> said yes.
> It pulled the update - really slowly as it happened - slowly enough  
> that I went away and it snailled into the machine.
>
> Got install and update message.
>
> Said yes.
>
> The main install window appeared under the Install and Update window  
> - so I had to move it to proceed.
> Focus issues?
>
> Installation happened - but the Install and Update window remained  
> on screen - until I quit the X11 that was running (X11=>About was  
> then saying beta4). I used X11->Quit to stop it.
>
> However - looking back after the quit = I don't think that I had to  
> restart. X11 was *probably* still
> running and About is now saying Beta 5.
>
> Sorry I cannot be totally sure that I didn't restart X11 - but I  
> don't think I did.
>
> So it looks as if there may be some sequencing issues here. I can  
> attempt to repeat this on my other machine - is there something  
> useful that I can do to assist before I do that?
>
> On 19 Jul 2009, at 05:57, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> So... I have "two" releases to announce right now.
>>
>> 2.4.0_beta4 comes at you with the last of the blockers fixed (I  
>> think):
>>
>> freetype was fixed to allow fork()ing apps.
>> multi-monitor support has been improved (duplicate visuals have  
>> been removed).
>> cleaned up some more GLX code
>> Steam windows run through wine should now participate in Exposé
>> and support for automatic updates through Sparkle has been added...
>> xmodmap race is fixed
>>
>> beta5 is essentially identical to beta4 except for its version  
>> number...  This difference is in place to test out Sparkle.  I'm  
>> able to perform an update when I trigger it manually here, but the  
>> automatic update seems to not be working right now...
>>
>> I'd like everyone testing this to just install beta4 and hopefully  
>> beta5 will eventually appear as an update option.  I'd like some  
>> feedback about that over the next few days.  I'll be releasing  
>> versions like this in pairs until the automatic updates have been  
>> debugged.
>>
>> http://static.macosforge.org/xquartz/downloads/X11-2.4.0_beta4.dmg
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeremy
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