On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:25:11 -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: > Nicholas, > > I wasn't even aware of XFree86 4.2.1 until you mentioned it. > > I am not sure if I will build a release of it or not... seems like a lot of > trouble for just a few fixes, with non of them Cygwin-specific. 4.2.1 has an important security fix - arguably whether it matters for cygwin based installations though.
> As for building versioned DLLs --- I have no idea. I am not knowledgeable > enough about that topic to be able to give you an answer, or even to be able > to discuss it. > > In regards to Xft1 and XFt2, Alan Hourihane and I noticed a problem with > both of them being built and one DLL (version 1) wiping out the other DLL > (version 2), so we said to hell with it and stopped building Xft1 and went > full-on with Xft2. As to whether or not that was a good decision, I can > only say that Alan thought it was okay, so it is okay with me :) For this issue, I would revisit it, if someone claimed that there are applications for Cygwin/XFree86 that relied on Xft1. I suspect for the number of applications that will become available for Cygwin/XFree86 they'll now be using Xft2 anyway. But please speak up if this is a problem, I will take another look at fixing it. > So, in summary, there is not likely to be a release effort applied to > getting 4.2.1 out the door... unless I suddenly come up on a great amount of > time. Also, Alan shipped me the standard X packages last time, which I fed > through the Cygwin packaging script, so if he does that this time I'll > likely make a 4.2.1 release. There's no bandwidth from me at the moment to cover this, I'm swamped underneath lots and lots of work. Alan.
