Hello all, Previously I erronously sent this to the list (and strangely this post which was sent immediately afterwards appears to been filtered out):
From: "Kendall Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Harold, > > What is the latest status on Cygwin/XFree86? I want to start > working on a port of X to Windows, and figured I would start with > Cygwin/X to see how that works. I really want to build this with > Open Watcom, not GCC, but I don't know what the latest status is. > Does the 4.3.0 tree build cleanly for Cygwin, or do you need to > apply some patches to make this work? I was not able to figure out > where those patches live from the Cygwin/X web site. > > Finally have you considered building Cygwin/X with the new SFU 3.5 > tools fom Microsoft? It includes native ports of GCC to Windows, > which may be better than Cygwin performance wise. I don't know > however if the SFU SDK will allow you access to Windows services > or only Unix ones. > > Also I don't recall if I offered to host the Cygwin port in our > Perforce server. We already have a public 4.3.0 tree that has been > patched with our SciTech SNAP driver code in it (for Linux), and I > am in discussions with some of the other members of the community > about starting a new project to take over where the XFree86 team > appears to be stuck. If you are interested let me know. Before anyone spams me with flame mail, perhaps I should explain the last paragraph. Clearly the future of XFree86 is very murky right now, as many developers have left to work on other projects such as freedesktop.org, and now with the core team disbanded it is unclear exactly how companies such as SciTech or vendors such as ATI, Via, SiS etc who do not have direct connections with someone on the XFree86 committer list can get their patches into XFree86. From what I can tell basically nothing has really changed and it is just as difficult as before to get submissions into XFree86 (witness the problems of the Cygwin developers getting their patches accepted). IMHO the XFree86 user community cannot sit around and wait for the XFree86 group to figure out where they want to go and if/when they will open up the project to allow more developers with CVS committer access. The alternatives such as freedesktop.org and Xouvert are more focussed on future technology that provided a home for a stable X server for multiple platforms. For that reason we are considering the option of opening up our existing Perforce server (which already has a mirror of XFree86 code in it) to public development. Hence I offered the Cygwin/X head developer access to that server if he is interested. Regards, --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
