HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)

[Charles Wilson]

Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> I have been working on packaging the new, modular X11R7.0 for Cygwin for 
> the last few weeks.  There's still a few dozen packages left, but the 
> time has come to deal with handling some of the issues involved in this 
> transition.

You rock.

> xpm-nox:
> a) /usr/bin/{c,s}xpm.exe and /usr/share/man/man1/{c,s}xpm.1 will collide 
> with those provided by libXpm.  These should have -noX appended to their 
> names.

OK.

> b) what is the purpose of /usr/bin/cygXpm-X4.dll?

backwards compatibility.  In the depths of time, my xpm package provided 
  both X and non-X xpm support.  Then when the cygwin-x team released a 
version of XFree86 based on the XFree86-4.0 code (~2001) we had a 
problem: xpm was officially merged into the XFree86-4.0 codebase and the 
cygwin-x team provided an X-xpm DLL and import lib.

Long story short, the cygwin-x team's version became the official way to 
get X-based XPM support; my X- DLL was left just in case some apps still 
needed it -- but my import library was removed.  Thus, any apps compiled 
after that point, using X, and XPM, would get the cygwin-x XPM DLL and 
would no longer need mine.


It's been years (at least 5) since an import library for this DLL 
existed, so I doubt any app out there uses it, except some really old 
pre-compiled XEmacs binaries or Open-DX binaries that were NOT part of 
cygwin's setup.exe-installable packageset.  Even worse, cygXpm-X4.dll 
depends on the X11 DLLs in the XFree86-lib-compat package.

But after 5 years, I think we can get rid of it.

BTW, my version of sxpm DOES use my cygXpm-X4.dll; without using libW11 
or something similar, sxpm can't work in non-X mode.  I'll just remove 
it from xpm-nox.  cxpm uses noX, so I'll rename my version as you suggested.

--
Chuck