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Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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These binaries are likely to be very outdated.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.
They were based on the XFree 4.3 release. But the hw/xwin part was and still
is being extended with a lot of features and 6 months make a big difference
between a broken and a much better clipboard integration.
bye
ago
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