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Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure


Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
Others have mentioned building *NIX tcl/tk on Cygwin, and I wouldn't
call building gtk2 daunting;

Daunting to build it in such a way that (a) the win32 version doesn't interfere with the X version, (b) vice versa, and (c) you're SURE that nothing win32-runtime 'leaks' into either version, but ONLY win32-GUI gets into the win32 version.


I'm not personally interested, as I'm
focusing on the X11 ports.

What's stopping us from moving the Win32 tcltk in /opt/win32, and making
new *NIX tcl and tk packages in /usr?  Then all that's necessary for
insight is to add /opt/win32 to PATH (either through a script,
profile.d, or manually).  Similar packages (i.e. that have both X11/*NIX
and Win32 flavors) could use /opt/win32 as well.

All of this mucking about with tk and insight requires the concurrence of -- and oodles of extra work by -- the tk maintainer and the insight maintainer. Plus, <speculation alert> given the centrality of the debugger to the GNUPro product, this sort of change might meet resistance from the PowersThatBe channeled thru our local Benign Dictator(s).


Good luck with that.

--
Chuck


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