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Backwards compatibility


Hi,

I was wondering what the Cygwin community thinks about maintaining backwards compatibility, especially regarding configuration files when updating or changing a package. As a long time Debian user I have grown accustomed to upgrades going very smoothly, backwards compatibility with previous setups being maintained, and smooth, well documented, and mostly automatic migrations if compatibility can't be maintained. What, if any, is the policy regarding upgrades for Cygwin?

I did search through the Cygwin documention and couldn't find this information. If I overlooked something I apologize in advance. Please point me to the appropriate document.

Of course this question doesn't come out of the blue. It is triggered by the release of xinit 1.3.4-1 last month, which breaks setups for many people. If you like you can check the cygwin-xfree mailing list. Unfortunately the responds from the package maintainers has been: The way it has worked for years was a bug, your setup is wrong. Which would be fine if there was documentation on how to do this, or even a way to do this, but there is neither. There seems to be a general unwillingness among the maintainers to acknowledge that user experience matters.

Before you ask, yes, I did post this to the cygwin-xfree mailing list. However I am not getting anywhere there. So I am interested in the thoughts of the wider, beyond X11, Cygwin community on backwards compatibility.

Thanks,

Laurens Blankers

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