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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
