On 10/26/2011 5:53 PM, Cary R. wrote: > If I'm understanding this correctly once this change has been > pushed we will be required to start an X server beforerunning > gitk.
Yes. > As someone who uses git and gitk all the time having to > start the X server to run gitk is a pain. I haven't checked this > recently, but in the past the X server was a bit of a resource > hog so my typical pattern is toonly start it when needed and > that's not very often. Well, the cygwin-X folks have made a lot of improvements over the past year or so (and the accelerated version looks to be coming along...). However, because XWin.exe /is/ a cygwin app, it suffers all the normal posix->win32 emulation penalties that every cygwin app does. So, one solution is to just use the native win32 XMing xserver (free-as-in-beer version, or the donation-supported one). tk only depends on libX11.dll (no other X extensions), so on the client side tk is fairly light in its X-incarnation. Also, here's the cygwin-git maintainer from three years ago: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00095.html Eric Blake wrote: > According to Christopher Faylor on 8/4/2008 5:38 PM: > | That opens the door to building a > | real version of tcl/tk for cygwin and linking insight to it. > > > YEAH! Among others, the git package would appreciate the availability of > a modern tcl/tk. So... > I understand the desire to switch to X, but I think this deserves > some thought on how it will effect the general users. Well, I think it *has* been thought about, and discussed, quite a bit. The decision was pretty much adopted -- only the implementation has been delayed due to (a) lack of roundtuits of the 'cgf' denomination, (b) in the far past, we had no /modern/ (7.x) X implementation and were limping along with a very old X distro. Obviously, until (b) was fixed, it made no sense to modify tcltk. And until (a) improved -- which, apparently, it never did -- the implementation couldn't happen. Hence, cgf's decision to invite Yaakov to take over. Here are some of the previous discussions: Interest in "native" Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-10/msg00316.html Does anyone use insight on cygwin? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00089.html tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00311.html gitk unusable in cygwin-1.7.6-1 because tcltk-20080420-1 is native win32 app. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00913.html ====NOTE==== in the gitk thread above, Reini Urban, the cygwin perl and parrot maintainer, was vehemently against switching tcltk from GDI to X11. I wonder if his opinion has changed in the past year... Tcl file separator http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-01/msg00257.html (esp. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-01/msg00369.html) Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-06/msg00081.html -- Chuck
