Re: Any move to xorg v7?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:48:45PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
>
>> Is anyone considering porting cygwin/x to the v7 architecture?
>
>It's not a matter of porting per se.  You can use x.org R7 with Cygwin
>right now, through Cygwin Ports.  (But that's of course a separate
>project so use its mailing list for problems.)  The issue is that Cygwin
>currently lacks an X11 maintainer to handle the packaging.  If I recall
>correctly Yaakov offered to contribute his R7 packages to the Cygwin
>distro, but there was some other divergence between the two distros that
>caused it to be problematic.  Or maybe it was that there was still some
>lingering problem with the R7 server that he couldn't get working.  I
>don't recall, but you can find the details in the cygwin-apps mailing
>list archive.

I believe it was the latter - there was something not working which
required debugging and that never materialized.

cgf

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