+system_x11 to bite the dust

[David Evans]

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
> On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:41, David Evans wrote:
>> I agree that this would be a move toward simplification, but the 
>> interest in universal builds makes me think that a number of people 
>> are using
>> MacPorts to build applications to be distributed in binary form to 
>> various target architectures.  It would make sense to me that in this 
>> case that
>> end users should be able to expect any X11 based applications to work 
>> correctly with the X11 server that MacOS provides out of the box.
>
> Yes, the X11 applications will work on any X11 server.  You can even 
> install Xfree86-3.x on FreeBSD on another machine and run the macports 
> X11 apps on it.
>
>> So is this true or would such users need to install xorg-server as 
>> well?  If so, do all Apple supplied X11 clients work correctly with 
>> xorg-server?
>
> This would actually be preferred for Tiger users.  Apple's bundled X11 
> server is quite dated.  The only known incompatibility is with the new 
> libGL and the old server.  If users want good GLX performance on 
> Tiger, they should use xorg-server instead of the Apple-provided X11.app.
>
>
Sounds good to me then.  Thanks for all your hard work on updating X11.