Goldstar please (Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.2.0-2)
Christopher Faylor
cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Wed Dec 30 04:42:00 GMT 2009
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 07:31:07PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On 29/12/2009 16:27, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> Sounds like a good idea, but I wish I'd known this was coming before
>>> wasting time on:
>>>
>>> * Improve checkX behavior when used as 'barrier' in startxwin.
>>
>> Sorry about that, Chuck, but this was just the latest of a long string
>> of issues involving these scripts. We've been talking about replacing
>> them for a while, and the recent traffic on the list was enough of an
>> impetus to make me finally stop bandaging the scripts and find a better
>> solution. Plus, we gain argument handling and .startxwinrc, something
>> the scripts would likely never do.
>
>Like I said, it sounds to me like a good idea; there's just so many
>issues that can go (and have gone) wrong in these scripts -- PLUS, whose
>idea was it to have TWO, one .sh and one .bat?!!? Yeeesh. We're well
>rid of them.
Yes, in fact, I think this deserves a gold star. These things have been
a pain in the neck for years.
cgf
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