no more Quartz in new MacOS 10.13.2?

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

> On 1 Jan 2018, at 12:55 pm, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
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>> On 1 Jan 2018, at 8:00 pm, macports-users-request at lists.macports.org wrote:
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>> I'm a novice using MacPorts but I have used it to successfully install Python on my MacBookPro since late 2014 and on many different Macs used by my students.
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>> I would use the command like: sudo port install py36-tkinter +quartz
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>> and everything was fine. I recently upgraded to MacOS 10.13.2, updated MacPorts for High Sierra and got the most recent Xcode. My MacPorts installed python opens but crashes whenever I attempt to open or save a .py file. I can install python using X11 but miss the quartz interface.
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>> I recently read on the internet that quartz in no longer part of the newest Mac systems
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>> Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.
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> I use it all the time running x11 apps on other machines and displaying on my High Sierra workstation.
> It is definitly part of High Sierra and definitely works

Do not confuse Quartz and XQuartz. You are not (directly) using Quartz to run X11 applications. Quartz is the basic window manager in macOS/OSX and is used by native mac applications. 

XQuartz is an entirely different product that provides an X11 server on top of the Quartz layer, that allows X11 applications to run. 

Quartz has not been removed as part if the standard OS install. It cannot be, its needed to run any display... its an integral part of the OS.

XQuartz for a while now (i forget the exact release) not been shipped by Apple directly, but instead is available as a third party application. Its a guess but I suspect this is what the OP was referring to, not Quartz.

Chris
 
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> James