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Re: Cannot start X server
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:06:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Cannot start X server
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Sorry for the cross-post, but I feel it's relevant to both lists... We
should move any resulting discussion to one of them (probably
cygwin@cygwin.com).
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:11:19AM -0600, Andrew Grimm wrote:
> >This is not really an XFree problem, rather it is a global Cygwin issue
> >caused by a policy change that took most people by surprise.
>
> Sounds like most people need to read the cygwin release announcements a
> little more closely rather than just blindly upgrading.
> cgf
In retrospective, would it help to mark any other new release with such a
major policy change 'Experimental' for a while?
Igor
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