From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6421 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2015 10:03:51 -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 6411 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jan 2015 10:03:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,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; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 10:03:48 +0000 Received: from gaia.blankersfamily.com (gaia.blankersfamily.com [172.30.0.103]) by selene.blankersfamily.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BC19A0 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 11:03:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from unknown (Authenticated sender: laurens@blankersfamily.com) by gaia.blankersfamily.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B6D51EB for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 11:03:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <54AA617B.6050105@blankersfamily.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 10:03:00 -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: run.exe will not work with upgrade from 1.14.4 to 1.16.3 References: <54A6FDB8.9070106@blankersfamily.com> <54A766A7.7020609@cygwin.com> <54A7A26E.7090801@blankersfamily.com> <54A874F1.8000203@cygwin.com> <54A926F9.4090902@blankersfamily.com> <54AA0D4D.2030803@cygwin.com> <54AA5429.1090907@blankersfamily.com> <54AA5E05.2040600@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <54AA5E05.2040600@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-01/txt/msg00011.txt.bz2 On 5-1-2015 10:48, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > Just .startxwinrc, and the changes were explained in the announcement. The information is contained within the announcement, but it is a bit difficult to figure out what to do from just the list of changes. A more detailed step-by-step guide, preferably as part of the FAQ would be very much appreciated. > ssh -X hasn't been supported since X11R7.4 way back in 2008 (see the > FAQ for details). I see, but PuTTY which apparently uses insecure forwards has worked for many years all the way up to 1.3.2-1. > That's what the announcement was for. As mentioned above a bit more guidance would be nice. > I am not going to revert the recent changes, which are important and > long overdue. If any has constructive suggestions for incremental > improvements thereto, they will be duly considered, but going > backwards is not the solution. OK, I am a bit disappointed, but I do have some suggestions. How would you prefer I post them? In this thread or a new one? All together or one post per suggestion? > That won't be necessary. As a rolling distribution without stable > releases, these kind of changes in UX happen from time to time.=20 > That's what announcements are for. Are you saying it is inappropriate to discuss or that you personally don't see value in this? 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/