Re: cygwin, tcl/tk, and native [Was: Re: Interest in native Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?]

2004-10-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 03:46:45AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: I like the third option... I'm not going to use gdb as much as Chris so I think he is in a better position to maintain it. However, I agree to take care of cutting the first stable gdb + Cygwin, W11 Tcl/Tk version. I would

Re: Cygwin, tcl/tk, and native [Was: Re: Interest in native Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?]

2004-10-16 Thread Jean-Sebastien Trottier
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:02:32PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: I would say that what we already have is: Tcl/Tk: half-Windows/half-Cygwin, GDI Err...ok. If by this you mean tcl: cygwin (no GUI), but it doesn't do cygwin paths correctly in all

Re: Cygwin, tcl/tk, and native

2004-10-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote (heavily [snip]ped): On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 05:02:32PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: Although (I think) it would be possible to have 2 Tk DLL's (Cygwin, X vs Cygwin, GDI), I like Charles Wilson's idea to

Cygwin, tcl/tk, and native [Was: Re: Interest in native Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?]

2004-10-15 Thread Charles Wilson
In the interests of clarity, let's agree on some terminology: a cygwin version -- uses the cygwin1.dll for runtime services (like printf etc) a native windows version uses msvcrt.dll for runtime services an X version uses xlib calls to draw stuff on a display this requires a xserver of

Re: Cygwin, tcl/tk, and native [Was: Re: Interest in native Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?]

2004-10-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Using these terms, what we already have is cygwin, GDI ActiveState provides a native, GDI What is being proposed is cygwin, X Note that tcl and itcl do not, themselves, do any display-oriented processing. So GDI vs. X is meaningless for them. They could be released

Re: Cygwin, tcl/tk, and native [Was: Re: Interest in native Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?]

2004-10-15 Thread Jean-Sebastien Trottier
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:35:16PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: In the interests of clarity, let's agree on some terminology: a cygwin version -- uses the cygwin1.dll for runtime services (like printf etc) a native windows version uses msvcrt.dll for runtime services an X version

Re: Cygwin, tcl/tk, and native [Was: Re: Interest in native Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?]

2004-10-15 Thread Charles Wilson
Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: I would say that what we already have is: Tcl/Tk: half-Windows/half-Cygwin, GDI Err...ok. If by this you mean tcl: cygwin (no GUI), but it doesn't do cygwin paths correctly in all cases tk: cygwin, X11 As you can see above, the current Tcl version uses