Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Tue Oct 11 01:43:00 GMT 2005
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> What does "Cygwin native" mean? If Cygwin is meant to be a POSIX
> environment, then X11 should be the standard for GUI apps.
Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight'
*must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI.
It may be possible, eventually, to have both win32GUI-cygwin-runtime-tk
and XGUI-cygwin-runtime-tk on the same machine, but nobody has
undertaken the daunting task to make that happen. Ditto gtk.
However, I don't see the problem in assuming that GUI apps are presumed
to be X-flavor (with the tk exception, above). If at some point
somebody figures out how to build a similar GUI app/toolkit in the
opposite flavor, it can go in /opt/.
--
Chuck
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