no more Quartz in new MacOS 10.13.2?

[William Magill]

Is the questioner actually referring to / confused by the Metal announcement?

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> On Dec 31, 2017, at 13:59, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Dec 31, 2017, at 11:09, James Clayson 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.
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Can you send us the crash log?
> 
>> I recently read on the internet that quartz in no longer part of the newest Mac systems
> 
> Where did you read that? URL?