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New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support

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Re: New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support

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> Older builds required either a lot of hand-holding or Apple Internal tools, so this will hopefully be a step towards making it easier for others to drive future releases of XQuartz. If that is something you'd be interested in, please let me know. Sounds like they are planning on having the community take over responsibility for XQuartz. Nonetheless it’s great that they put in the work of bringing native Apple Silic…

The community took over responsibility for XQuartz almost a decade ago. The build / release process that relied on some internal tooling, which meant only I could do it (until I finally spent a couple days writing a new release script over the Winter holiday).

Re: New Xquartz release with native Apple Silicon support

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It probably used the Rosetta emulation layer before

Compiled from MacPorts, so source for AS...

Correct, I've been recommending folks use MacPorts to build xorg-server if they want to stay up to date as I was not able to put out new XQuartz releases for a while. Right now, there are a few bug fixes in the latest XQuartz release which I haven't pulled back into MacPorts yet, but I'll do that at some point soon.
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