RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 61

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

I've posted the patch against the current CVS tree for changes up through
Test 61 (and a few minutes afterwards), for those of you following the
development of Cygwin/XFree86:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/xwin-Test61.diff.bz2 (21 KiB)

Here's a couple questions:

1) Should I start posting CVS diff files with each test release?  If there
are developers out there interested in this I can do it; if there aren't, I
might as well not bother.

2) Are the change logs too wordy?  I've been told that when speaking I tend
to offer a flood of information.  Should I post shorter change logs, or
should I post a summary at the top of the change log?  I have been trying to
make short descriptions of bug fixes appear at the top of the change logs so
that people can see that a bug has been fixed without reading the in-depth
description of what had to be changed to fix the bug.  Is it useful to put
those short descriptions at the top?

3) How do you like the first six hours I've had to work on Cygwin/XFree86
without any homework to slow me down, for the first time in 18 months?  :)


Oh yeah, Test61 will need some series testing by users with hardware that
does ``packed'' 24 bit color pixels (Windows will let you select 24 bit
color rather than 32 bit color when such hardware is present).  I haven't
got a single machine that can do packed 24 bit pixels so I haven't been able
to test at 24 bit color.

Once these graphics changes have stabilized I'll start looking at Jehan's
systray icon patch.

Thanks for testing,

Harold