From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16533 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2014 16:07:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 16520 invoked by uid 89); 30 Dec 2014 16:07:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: selene.blankersfamily.com Received: from 87-161.ftth.onsbrabantnet.nl (HELO selene.blankersfamily.com) (88.159.161.87) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:07:11 +0000 Received: from gaia.blankersfamily.com (gaia.blankersfamily.com [172.30.0.103]) by selene.blankersfamily.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BA8C3A for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:07:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from unknown (Authenticated sender: laurens@blankersfamily.com) by gaia.blankersfamily.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CE165E0 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 17:07:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <54A2CDA3.6030502@blankersfamily.com> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:07:00 -0000 From: Laurens Blankers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: xinit-1.3.4-1: breaking backwards compatibility References: <54A2CD0E.4080904@alice.it> In-Reply-To: <54A2CD0E.4080904@alice.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 On 30-12-2014 17:04, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > The same you can do with the link created as suggested in my previous > replay. You are probably right, but again, that is not the issue. The point I am trying to make is that breaking configurations which have worked for many years in a patch release is very bad practice. Laurens -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/