Re: Reference to XFree86-4.4 not in doc: x11.en.xml, uguide.en.xml, faq.en.xml

"Alexander K. Hansen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.i18n
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On May 27, 2004, at 5:31 PM, Michèle Garoche wrote:

> faq.en.xml,  <faqentry name="x-options">
> similar problem in uguide, and x11
>
> A: ... Apple's X11,  which is a modification of XFree86-4.2.1, and 
> XFree86-4.3 are faster  than standard XFree86-4.2.1.1, but the latter 
> is more stable. There is  also a modification of 4.2.1.1 with 
> threading support added, which is  required by a few packages.
>
> Is not the current Apple's X11 a modification of XFree86-4.3?

yes

> How to rephrase it so that it integrates XFree86-4.4.
>

Perhaps mention that XFree86-4.4 has comparable speed to Apple's X11 
and can run Apple's quartz-wm.

> Currently, under Panther, Apple's X11 (on the third disk) is the  only 
> choice.
> There is also XFree86-4.4.
>

Agreed--this should have been added a while ago.

> Under Jaguar, the most popular choices, and the Fink packages to  make 
> them work are:
> 	• 	
> 4.2.x built via Fink: install xfree86-base and  xfree86-rootless or 
> xfree86-base-threaded  and xfree86-rootless-threaded (and the 
> respective  -shlibs)
> 	• 	
> 4.3.x built via Fink: install the xfree86 and  xfree86-shlibs packages
> 	or 4.4?

4.4 isn't available as a Fink package on Jaguar.

> • 	
> 4.2.x from Apple (User+SDK packages installed): install the  
> system-xfree86 package
> Theoretically this is no more possible, since beta X11 is out of date.
>

It's expired, but people still use it.  Also--the system-xfree86 
package is no longer "installed", but automatically generated, so that 
part of the wording should probably be changed.

> Michèle
> <http://micmacfr.homeunix.org>
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documentarian
Day Job:  Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX



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