Re: XFree 4.2.1 + fontconfig-2

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

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.