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Re: sometimes resource alters but version numbers don't


On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:19:15PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:40:21PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> As hard as this is to believe, the changes to X11 packages were discussed
>> (drum roll please) ON THE cygwin-xfree list!  Can you believe it?  What
>> are the odds?
>
>Huh; I'd assumed that list had been deleted when XFree86 went away,
>and that nobody had got around to creating a new cygwin-xorg list yet
>(or updating the website).  After all, there're hardly enough cygwin X
>users to justify a special list.

Yeah, we deleted the list and then just kept the reference to it around
on http://cygwin.com/lists.html and constantly redirected people to the
cygwin-xfree list when they wanted to discuss X topics.  For sport.

>> The reason that the version numbers did not change is that the contents
>> of the packages did not change.  The .tar.bz2 files were repacked in a
>> different order to see if this solved an installation problem.  There
>> is no need for anyone to download these new packages.
>> 
>> There was nothing untoward to detect here, no need for an "improved"
>> upset, and no need to panic.
>
>Spoilsport!  Don't you know how many people *enjoy* panicking?

For some reason the very thought of this fills me with an intense but
somehow pleasurable sence of urgency.

cgf


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