On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:40:46AM -0400, Andr? Bleau wrote:
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
...
FIRST, the following two packages *must* be rearranged BEFORE the X11R7.0
upgrade, in order not to cause collisions:
opengl:
a) /usr/bin/glui-examples is non-FHS-compiliant; this should be moved to
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:14:49AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:40:46AM -0400, Andr? Bleau wrote:
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
...
FIRST, the following two packages *must* be rearranged BEFORE the X11R7.0
upgrade, in order not to cause collisions:
opengl:
a)
Christopher Faylor wrote:
...
Yes, you can email these to me, if you want, if when we standardize on
Modular X11: cgf+cygwin-apps AT cgf DOT com
Sigh. Why am I always smarter two seconds after hitting 'y'?
cgf+cygwin-apps AT cgf DOT cx
cgf
OK, I will send you an updated package by the
Charles Wilson wrote:
No, I think you should leave it as is. Your 'cxpm.exe' and 'sxpm.exe'
should be the official ones; my cxpm-noX is just a hey, cygXpm-noX4.dll
kinda works maybe indicator.
OK, that's up to you. You'll just need to make xpm-nox-4.2.0-5 current
before modular X11 is
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
FIRST, the following two packages *must* be rearranged BEFORE the
X11R7.0 upgrade, in order not to cause collisions:
xpm-nox has already been taken care of by Charles Wilson, that leaves
opengl, whose maintainer AFAICS is André Bleau.
SECOND, the following
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:20:08PM -0500, Gary R. (Mr. Predictable) Van Sickle
wrote:
From: Christopher Faylor
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:17 PM
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:08:31PM +0200, Hannu
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:20:08PM -0500, Gary R. (Mr.
Predictable) Van Sickle wrote:
From: Christopher Faylor
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:17 PM
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:25:42PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
CGF, there you have my paranoia - and BTW; did you see that smiley? It was a
chance for you to take that note less seriously than you did. Think about
it; wouldn't that have been a more pleasent road to travel?
First warning:
: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:08:31PM +0200, Hannu E K
Nevalainen wrote:
Sorry for writing in a shorthand style. Please fill in
the missing
words of type please...
And as a precaution;
in case CGF happens to read this and finds anything
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:24:38PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
[Followups set to the more-appropriate cygwin-talk@ list]
Which is precisely what I'd already requested and is something that
you consistently ignore.
So long, Gar' old pal. cygwin-apps will miss you.
cgf
I apologize for letting the recent non-technical discussion get out of
hand. I hope that it hasn't been damaged by the recent idiocy (and I do
include myself under that umbrella).
I really do find this discussion interesting and I'm looking forward to
the day when Yaakov takes over the Cygwin/X
On Apr 16 21:19, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
I have been working on packaging the new, modular X11R7.0 for Cygwin for
the last few weeks. [...]
So you're actually volunteering yourself as the new Cygwin/X maintainer?
This would be worth a couple of gold stars. Are you also willing to
Sorry for writing in a shorthand style. Please fill in the missing words of
type please...
And as a precaution;
in case CGF happens to read this and finds anything upsetting:
No personal offense intended! ;-)
Remember; I would NOT be here writing this unless I lkied cygwin a lot.
In the
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:08:31PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
Sorry for writing in a shorthand style. Please fill in the missing words of
type please...
And as a precaution;
in case CGF happens to read this and finds anything upsetting:
No personal offense intended! ;-)
Remember; I
Charles Wilson wrote:
But after 5 years, I think we can get rid of it.
BTW, my version of sxpm DOES use my cygXpm-X4.dll; without using
libW11 or something similar, sxpm can't work in non-X mode. I'll just
remove it from xpm-nox. cxpm uses noX, so I'll rename my version as
you suggested.
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
So you're actually volunteering yourself as the new Cygwin/X maintainer?
I'm working on it, but I'm not fully committing until everything is
actually working and packaged.
Are you also willing to maintain the web page at http://xfree.cygwin.com/
and to be a bit
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
Charles Wilson wrote:
But after 5 years, I think we can get rid of it.
BTW, my version of sxpm DOES use my cygXpm-X4.dll; without using
libW11 or something similar, sxpm can't work in non-X mode. I'll
just remove it from xpm-nox. cxpm uses noX, so I'll rename
From: Christopher Faylor
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:17 PM
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 08:08:31PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
Sorry for writing in a shorthand style. Please fill
--- Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
I have been working on packaging the new, modular X11R7.0 for Cygwin for
the last few weeks.
Mega-gold-stars for you!
SECOND, the following packages install into /usr/X11R6. These should be
repackaged into /usr ASAP after the X11R7.0 upgrade:
[...]
--- James R. Phillips wrote:
--- Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
I have been working on packaging the new, modular X11R7.0 for Cygwin for
the last few weeks.
Mega-gold-stars for you!
SECOND, the following packages install into /usr/X11R6. These should be
repackaged into /usr
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, James R. Phillips wrote:
--- James R. Phillips wrote:
--- Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
I have been working on packaging the new, modular X11R7.0 for Cygwin
for the last few weeks.
Mega-gold-stars for you!
SECOND, the following packages install into
Igor Peshansky wrote:
Not only that, it will affect many users' shortcuts. For example, many
users have a shortcut to xterm that says something like
c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm [options]
Some have quite a few. If we go through with this change, we'll need to
find a good
--- Igor Peshansky wrote:
X is part of the base Debian install. It is not part of the base Cygwin
install.
Um, that is not true. It is still perfectly possible to setup a debian install
without any X libraries. But of course you couldn't install ghostscript.
Unless the set of X
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, James R. Phillips wrote:
--- Igor Peshansky wrote:
X is part of the base Debian install. It is not part of the base
Cygwin install.
Um, that is not true. It is still perfectly possible to setup a debian
install without any X libraries. But of course you couldn't
James R. Phillips wrote:
--- Igor Peshansky wrote:
Unless the set of X libraries is *really* small, it would make sense to
have a non-X version of ghostscript.
OK, we'll have to wait and see on that. Otherwise, I guess we have consensus
in principle on a method to carry both versions
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
Igor Peshansky wrote:
Yes. [the] purpose [of nonX gs] is the same as xpm-nox -- to allow rendering
postscript
to a non-screen device in batch mode. People who don't have X may still
want to do this, for example to convert postscript to PDF.
Since X11 will
Charles Wilson wrote:
But after 5 years, I think we can get rid of it.
BTW, my version of sxpm DOES use my cygXpm-X4.dll; without using libW11
or something similar, sxpm can't work in non-X mode. I'll just remove
it from xpm-nox. cxpm uses noX, so I'll rename my version as you
suggested.
I have been working on packaging the new, modular X11R7.0 for Cygwin for
the last few weeks. There's still a few dozen packages left, but the
time has come to deal with handling some of the issues involved in this
transition.
For those unaware of X11 internals, the major changes included in
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
I have been working on packaging the new, modular X11R7.0 for Cygwin for
the last few weeks. There's still a few dozen packages left, but the
time has come to deal with handling some of the issues involved in this
transition.
Good job!
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