Re: Supported platforms and code merge

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

Thats cool. I think the howto will be useful. I'm talking about CVS access
to the website so I can start doing the updates I offered on saturday.

It's not on the website yet, but the redhat cvs server no longer has xfree
on it. With the changes made by Suhaib merged into the Xfree 4.0.1 code
base, anon cvs no comes from the xfree86 org CVS servers. (
http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/).

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
To: "'Robert Collins'" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:39 AM
Subject: RE: Supported platforms and code merge


> Robert,
>
> Okay, good, I'm not seeing things (or, failing to see things) :)
>
> I haven't look at the source code yet, I plan on pulling from CVS in a few
> days, but I wanted to write this how-to before I got involved, or before I
> started thinking that it wouldn't be useful. . .
>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 5:41 PM
> To: Harold Hunt; Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Supported platforms and code merge
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
> To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:27 AM
> Subject: RE: Supported platforms and code merge
>
>
> > I don't see any such changes on the FAQ at
> > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/faq.html, are you referring to
> > another FAQ?
>
> No changes yet.. still getting CVS access sorted. "Planned changes"
>
> > I agree that the how-to should reference the FAQ, but I do want to
include
> > at least some sort of pointer to the effect that, at the time of
writing,
> > Win9X is not supported.  Just so somebody doesn't waste their time. . .
>
> I agree.. just getting in on the ground floor as they say.
> I've never tried 9x, seen some posts on it though... I'll leave it to
Suhaib
>
>
> > Harold L Hunt II
> > Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> > Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 5:28 PM
> > To: Cygx (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: Supported platforms and code merge
> >
> > Harold,
> >     Did you get a chance to look at the cygwin X-free FAQ? I've got a
list
> > of things to be changed, which includes a lot of versioning style info.
> >
> > How about the how-to focus on the mechanics of installing, perhaps
> > referencing the FAQ where extra information is needed? I;m suggesting
this
> > so we minimise the number of duplicate explanations we end up with - to
> > minise our required maintenance efforts
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
> > To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 7:58 AM
> > Subject: Supported platforms and code merge
> >
> >
> > > Suhaib,
> > >
> > > Are the following statements correct?
> > >
> > > "Currently, the only supported Win32 platforms are Windows NT 4.0 SP4+
> and
> > > Windows 2000; Windows 95 and Windows 98 are not supported."
> > >
> > > "Cygwin allows the compilation of the XFree86 source on Win32; several
> > > patches were made to the XFree86 source to make XFree86 actually
compile
> > and
> > > run under Cygwin; it appears that those patches have been merged into
> the
> > > XFree86 4.0 source tree."
> > >
> > > Again, these are statement from my installation how-to, so I want to
> make
> > > sure that they are correct.  Thanks,
> > >
> > > Harold L Hunt II
> > > Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> > > Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
> > >
> > >
> >
>