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From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: X11R7.5 & fontcache..
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEA5978.5080705@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEA4329.2070403@tlinx.org>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-28  1:00 [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] X11R7.5 Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2009-10-30  1:36 ` X11R7.5 & fontcache Linda Walsh
2009-10-30  3:11   ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X) [this message]
2009-10-30  3:57     ` Linda Walsh
2009-10-30 18:10       ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
2009-11-04 22:05         ` release scheduling, cygwin 1.7 et al (was Re: X11R7.5 & fontcache..) Linda Walsh
2009-11-05  0:11           ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)

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