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Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg


On Wed, 12 May 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg
> >>>distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have
> >>>Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 .
> >>
> >>These binaries are likely to be very outdated. We moved to X.org because
> >>it was easier for Cygwin/X developers to get cvs access there. XFree
> >>only allowed cvs access for a few people from the core team. We had
> >>to ask them to include the changes into their cvs. As a result the
> >>XFree cvs was always a few weeks up to some months behind the Cygwin/X
> >>development.
> >>
> >>The cygwin part from XFree may now be about 7 or 8 months old. Many
> >
> >
> > Before saying "may be", it is proper to verify your statements.
> > The 4.4 binaries are no older than the end of December.
>
> So they are old.  Who cares?

Equally, I might point out that (until the recent bulk import), much
of cygwin's build tree outside the small area of the Xwin server was
several months old.

(It's hard to compare exactly without some work, since the people who
did the import did it carelessly, losing most of the identifiers -
doesn't inspire much confidence in their ability).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net


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