Comment # 5
on bug 11185
from Guy Harris
(In reply to Andreas Fink from comment #4)
> >"Properly" as in "works on OS X releases that came bundled with X11
>
> Which is up until 10.7 which about 1% of the user base still run.
>
> We are today 3 major releases ahead! If you need to see the adoption rate of
> OS X 10.10, then look at this graph http://update.omnigroup.com which shows
> real statistics of what versions of OS people use. In comparison to Windows
> and other operating systems, the adoption rate of newer release is very very
> high under OS X.
>
> If you don't support XQuarz then you don't support 10.8, 10.9, 10.10. Then
> please say so on the webpage so people don't download a version they can't
> use. Or you could also simply fix the problem in a post install script by
> calling install_name_tool to fix the paths (I'm not sure however if
> install_name_tool is part of the system without developer tools)
Or we could fix Apple's screwup by putting the damn symbolic link back in, as I
suggested in bug 10640.
> Apple doesn't install X11 at all anymore. So there's no broken Yosemite
> installer.
The conclusion does not follow from the premise.
An installer that removes /usr/X11 is broken just as an installer that removes
/usr/local is broken.
And XQuartz is an Apple project, so they can't claim that it's not their fault;
the left hand appears not to know what the right hand is doing.
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