Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Tue Oct 11 03:13:00 GMT 2005


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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