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RE: XWin design suggestion (Win32)
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at ssiddiqi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:06:07 -0700
- Subject: RE: XWin design suggestion (Win32)
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
Harold
Chris may have deleted the CVS. He maybe able to help you reset it and
add you as a administrator to win32-x11. However, sources in win32-x11
CVS were screwed up. The last update I did to win32-x11 CVS was during
my middle of move from North Carolina to California and somehow I
screwed up the sources. A few users reported missing files and
directories. The version of CD should be complete with sources, and
pre-compiled binaries.
If you are willing to take over the Win32-X11 project, please consult
with Chris for admin privileges. The web pages will need to be updated
too and you can move my name there to "Project Orginator" (Like
Cygwin/Xfree86 project) instead of maintainer and active contributor.
I would be more then glad to help you off-line with porting questions ad
fixes. However, unfortunately, I will not be able to actively
contribute or do some actual work. You are an excellent programming and
I am confident you would could get things done much faster.
Suhaib
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:33 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
I tried checking the CVS repository out, but it says:
harold@kraftwerk ~/x-devel
$ cvs co win32-x11
cvs server: Updating win32-x11
cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/src/win32-x11'
(/cvs/src/w
in32-x11/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/src/win32-x11'
cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
Harold
Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> Harold
>
> I never unsubscribed from Cygwin-xfree and Cygwin lists. I only went
> into passive mood because why bable when I could not contribute :-)
>
> I will send you CD once I have your info.
>
> Chris had win32-x11 project setup with a mailing list and CVS
> repository. Is it still there? If it is, maybe you take it over. It
> will allow other contributors to access code via CVS and contribute.
>
> Suhaib
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:21 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
>
> Suhaib,
>
> I was wondering if you had been watching the list :)
>
> Yes, I think I would be interested in that CD. I will email you
> off-list with my address.
>
> Harold
>
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
>>I had been watching the list. Harold had done some excellent work on
>>advancing Cygwin/Xfree to current status.
>>
>>It was my goal too, to compile XWin.exe with Microsoft Visual Studio.
>>The initial work was done with Cygwin to get this going and make
>
> porting
>
>>to VC easier. Therefore Win32-X11 at Source.redhat.com was started.
>
> I
>
>>was able to patch all the libraries and xclients, even 70% of XWin.exe
>>code written by Harold. However, due to my increasing
>
> responsibilities
>
>>at work, I had no spare time and stop contributing to several Open
>>Source projects, like Cygwin/xfree, win32-x11, opendx, and lesstif.
>>
>>I do still have patched sources of win32-x11 stored on a CD. Harold
>
> if
>
>>you need it, and you think it might be useful, I cant send the CD to
>>you. It is now almost a year old patched work of Xfree86 4.1.0. I am
>>sure some of the X-libraries will require patching again. Compilation
>>with Visual C does require MinW32 version of Flex and Bison. Flex is
>>needed to compile some of the fonts.
>>
>>Suhaib
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
>>[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:49 AM
>>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
>>
>>Sylvain,
>>
>>Because, as I have reiterated over and over, XWin.exe is a Windows
>>application, not a Cygwin application.
>>
>>As an aside, one of my goals is to have a stand-alone version of
>>XWin.exe, building off of Suhaib's work, that does not depend upon
>>Cygwin at all. It will mostly be a proof of concept, but it would
>
> also
>
>>be cool if X.org accepted the code into their sample implementation.
>>Granted, it wouldn't have all of the libraries and programs, but it
>>would be an X Server that ran on Windows.
>>
>>Thus, I want to avoid making XWin.exe a Cygwin app. Others may not
>>agree, but that is certainly my goal.
>>
>>Harold
>>
>>Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Why would we write outside of the cygwin filesystem to complete this
?
>>>Let us remain structured.
>>>
>>>--- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Biju,
>>>>I think we all forgot about one option: Why don't we use the
>>>>interface
>>>>to (for example) C:\Documents and Settings\User_Foo\Application
>>>>Data\CygwinXFree86\... ? Is there such an interface or is it
largely
>>>
>>>
>>>>just an issue of getting the proper directory to write your config
>>>>files to?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>=====
>>>Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle at users dot sourceforge dot net) ICQ
>>
>>#170597259
>>
>>
>>>No more War !
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>
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