[Fink-users] Warning re: Apple's X11 and continuing support for 10.2

[Viktor H. <vh...@ri...>]

I suffered a small computing meltdown recently which,
unfortunately, seemed to have resulted in some of the files in my
X11 installation getting scotched. (Morale of the story, if you
use Apple's DVD Player application, never leave it on "pause" for
an extended period of time -- this is not the first time that
having done so has resulted in damage to my file system for some
reason or other.)

Anyway, I needed to re-install Apple's X11 Beta 3 to fix the
problem.

When I went to Apple's site to get the packages (I had saved the
packages, but only on backup media stored off-site), I discovered
of course that they no longer provide access to the Beta versions
of the X11 server, only the v1.0 release package.

*And the v1.0 package doesn't install on pre-Panther versions of
the OS, of course.*

If you're using 10.2.x, and Apple's X11, then I recommend that
you make sure you have a backup of the User package and SDK
package *now*, because finding copies of these will be harder and
harder to find. (Currently, planetmirror still has copies of the
Beta 3 versions of these packages, but I have no idea how long
they'll have them, and the site is very busy.)

So, get those packages and store them in a safe place, unless
you're going to update to Panther some time soon. (I have my
update ordered through my company's purchasing department, so
lord knows how many weeks will pass before I get it.)

The alternative in this case would be using Fink's X11 packages
or some other provider of XFree or an X server for MacOSX, I
suppose.



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