Will there ever be a Test 8 release?

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

It is not supported.  The DOCS needs to update.  I got it working
WinME Beta RC3, but in final release of WinME, I assume Microsoft decided 
to reverse a lot of things and went back to Windows 9x crap... or may be
reversed on purpose so after a year they can sell Windows XP (code name
Whistler).
It does work on Windows XP ( code name Whistler) Beta-1, Personal edition
and Professional edition.  But I will not advertise it because Whistler
is still in Beta-1 and no one knows what features they decide to roll back
in final release.

To answer Test8 question; I do not think there would be Test8. harold is
working
hard on a final release and he might have something ready in a couple of
months
which could work on NT/Me/9x.

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arek (James Potts) [ mailto:webmaster@verge-net.com ]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 4:58 PM
> To: Cygwin Xfree Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Will there ever be a Test 8 release?
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't the current release supposed to 
> work with WinME
> (but not Win95/98)?  I'll look the docs over again, but I 
> think that they
> say that WinME is supported.  If it's not, the docs need to 
> reflect this,
> and I might just help out on the GDI version of XFree.
> 
> James Potts
> (webmaster@verge-net.com)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Eibach" <a.eibach@gmx.net>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 2:55 PM
> Subject: Will there ever be a Test 8 release?
> 
> 
> > At first glance, this question may appear silly.
> > But after reading Harold's comments on the devel page...
> >
> > "Test 7 is the result of my efforts to learn how the 
> framebuffer based
> > Cygwin/XFree86 worked, and to see if I could make the 
> framebuffer based
> > Cygwin/XFree86 work on Windows 95/98/Me. Ultimately, I 
> failed. :-) I can
> say
> > with confidence that you cannot create a safe, framebuffer 
> based X server
> on
> > Windows 95/98/Me; you could write a pseudo-video driver 
> that exposed the
> > video memory to the X server, but that would be very risky 
> and difficult
> to
> > support."
> >
> > AFAIR, I think this statement has obviously destroyed all 
> hopes that there
> > ever could be a *really usable* release for Win9x/Me. I 
> hope I'm wrong,
> > though ;)
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
>