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RE: XWin design suggestion
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at ssiddiqi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:27:12 -0700
- Subject: RE: XWin design suggestion
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
Harold
I never unsubscribed from Cygwin-xfree and Cygwin lists. I only went
into passive mood because why bable when I could not contribute :-)
I will send you CD once I have your info.
Chris had win32-x11 project setup with a mailing list and CVS
repository. Is it still there? If it is, maybe you take it over. It
will allow other contributors to access code via CVS and contribute.
Suhaib
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:21 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
Suhaib,
I was wondering if you had been watching the list :)
Yes, I think I would be interested in that CD. I will email you
off-list with my address.
Harold
Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
> I had been watching the list. Harold had done some excellent work on
> advancing Cygwin/Xfree to current status.
>
> It was my goal too, to compile XWin.exe with Microsoft Visual Studio.
> The initial work was done with Cygwin to get this going and make
porting
> to VC easier. Therefore Win32-X11 at Source.redhat.com was started.
I
> was able to patch all the libraries and xclients, even 70% of XWin.exe
> code written by Harold. However, due to my increasing
responsibilities
> at work, I had no spare time and stop contributing to several Open
> Source projects, like Cygwin/xfree, win32-x11, opendx, and lesstif.
>
> I do still have patched sources of win32-x11 stored on a CD. Harold
if
> you need it, and you think it might be useful, I cant send the CD to
> you. It is now almost a year old patched work of Xfree86 4.1.0. I am
> sure some of the X-libraries will require patching again. Compilation
> with Visual C does require MinW32 version of Flex and Bison. Flex is
> needed to compile some of the fonts.
>
> Suhaib
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:49 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
>
> Sylvain,
>
> Because, as I have reiterated over and over, XWin.exe is a Windows
> application, not a Cygwin application.
>
> As an aside, one of my goals is to have a stand-alone version of
> XWin.exe, building off of Suhaib's work, that does not depend upon
> Cygwin at all. It will mostly be a proof of concept, but it would
also
> be cool if X.org accepted the code into their sample implementation.
> Granted, it wouldn't have all of the libraries and programs, but it
> would be an X Server that ran on Windows.
>
> Thus, I want to avoid making XWin.exe a Cygwin app. Others may not
> agree, but that is certainly my goal.
>
> Harold
>
> Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>
>>Why would we write outside of the cygwin filesystem to complete this ?
>>Let us remain structured.
>>
>> --- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> a écrit :
>>
>>
>>>Biju,
>>>I think we all forgot about one option: Why don't we use the
>>>interface
>>>to (for example) C:\Documents and Settings\User_Foo\Application
>>>Data\CygwinXFree86\... ? Is there such an interface or is it largely
>>
>>
>>>just an issue of getting the proper directory to write your config
>>>files to?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>=====
>>Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle at users dot sourceforge dot net) ICQ
>
> #170597259
>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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