Re: X11R7.5 & fontcache..

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On 29/10/2009 20:36, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Does this mean it is a 'beta' or test version?

X11R7.5 is not a beta, it is a full release.  Cygwin 1.7 is technically 
still in beta, but is very usable and much improved over 1.5.

> If it is a released version, will it be made available for the
> released version of cygwin (1.5).

Probably not; I gave up on 1.5 a long time ago.

> I've no idea when cygwin will release 1.7 as being 'ready'...

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#RSN :-)

> How difficult would it be to turn on compiling in of the 'font-cache'
> extension?

Impossible; support for the extension was completely removed from the 
server over a year ago[1].


Yaakov
Cygwin/X

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=0b45ba4

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