Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > One more thing: "make check" doesn't work when built outside of the source > > > d

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > One more thing: "make check" doesn't work when built outside of the source > directory (the build itself is fine). I think changing "./run_test.sh" to > "${srcdir}/run_test.sh" should fix it, but I'm not sure, so I'll leave it >

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Ok, a couple of stumbles so far: > > > - The tarball is named "conflict.tar.gz" -- it would be easier if it were > > > named "conflict-20040327.tar.gz"... Not a biggie, though. > > > > The webpage links to conflict.tar.gz (

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > > > Before I reorder $PATH, I generally

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > Before I reorder $PATH, I generally take a look for conflicts - > > http://invisible-island.net/conflict/ > > Hmm, useful and builds OOTB... Have you considered maki

Re: gv

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Rohan Shah wrote: > > OK I'm screwed, when I do: "type -a gs" i get: > > > > $ type -a gs > > gs is /usr/bin/gs > > gs is /bin/gs > > gs is /usr/X11R6/bin/gs > > gs is ./gs > > gs is /usr/bin/gs > > gs is /usr/X11R6/bin/gs > > gs

Re: xterm fontsize

2004-06-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote: > How do you change the font size in xterm? I tried adding a -fs option in > the startxwin.bat file but it doesn't seem to have any effect. "-fs" applies only if you have the other options such as "-fa" which turn on FreeType. Otherwise it uses the font, font2

Re: Change in xterm beep behavior

2004-06-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Tim Hubberstey wrote: > I recently upgraded my Cygwin installation and the new > xterm (XFree86 4.4(185)) now beeps when I send it the > "full reset" sequence (\ec) where the previous version > I was using (XFree86 4.2.99.903(174)) didn't. > > Is this expected behavior or a bug

Re: Fw: 1.5.10: startx hangs intermittently

2004-06-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Jerry Moody wrote: > >Your email server rejects mail >5 bytes (and the required > >cygcheck.out file is 56506 bytes). So I zip'd it up, but your email > >server also rejects any mail with an executable (

Re: beep in cygwin term

2004-05-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 31 May 2004, McLaughlin, James S. wrote: > Hi, > > How do I turn off beep in my cygwin term ? > I want something like xset b off - is there such a thing ? supposedly (I don't know if the server implements it). If your "cygwin term" is xterm, you can set the visualBell resource. -- Thoma

Re: Terminal emulator capable of emulating Sun terminals

2004-05-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Chris Green wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:53:51AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Fri, 28 May 2004, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > I suppose what I'm suggestin

Re: Terminal emulator capable of emulating Sun terminals

2004-05-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Chris Green wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > I suppose what I'm suggesting is that you run cygwin/X and use xdm to > display your Sun desktop on your PC, then you can have Sun terminals > as you want. dtterm will display remotely -

Re: Terminal emulator capable of emulating Sun terminals

2004-05-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Hello dear mailing list participants, > as you might know by my previous mail > I am pretty much bound to Sun platform and > ocassionally need this or that terminal > that it specific to this platform (e.g. > sun-cmd or dtterm). Have we some terminal

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: > > > Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just > > a local terminal. > > > > However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! > > > a final note. 'resize' works around the problem on the local (i.e.

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: > Hi, > further on this. > > I now have the same behaviour on a local xterm (on an XP SP1 machine running > xorg Xwin 6.6.0.0-8, rest is latest cygwin). The funny thing is that it > happens in one xterm only, and I cannot reproduce it in others... In fac

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
son why the remote xterm would > > > behave different. > > > > > > > ok. the debian xterm I'm using is version XFree86 4.2.0(165), while the > > cygwin is XFree86 4.4(185). Not sure if I can update this right now though, > > so I won't be able to tell you

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > They were based on the XFree 4.3 release. But the hw/xwin part was and still > is being extended with a lot of features and 6 months make a big difference > between a broken and a much better clipboard integration. particularly when most of the wor

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I am a little bit confused I see here that we ha

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: > > > I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg > > distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have > > Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . > > These binaries are likely to be v

Re: xterm-186 build bustage

2004-04-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > (you actually need both sets of quotes so that the inner double quotes get > propagated to gcc -- same goes for your proposed changes above, and, > possibly, for the true clause of the #if statement in the above > Imakefile). If it helps, I can subm

Re: xterm-186 build bustage

2004-04-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > You'll quickly note that 'X.Org Foundation' is somehow > > getting into CFLAGS as a raw string, causing gcc to bork. It seems that > > this may be somehow caused by macros in xterm's configure scripts that > > copy the CFLAGS set by the imake conf

Re: xterm-186 build bustage

2004-04-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > If anyone wants to help me with something, grab the xterm-186 original > source (google for 'xterm', you'll find it), grab the -src package for > our xterm-185 package, copy and rename xterm-185-*.sh to xterm-186-1.sh > and try 'xterm-186-1.sh mkdirs

Re: /usr/bin/xterm

2004-04-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > All of the old school X guys (Jim Gettys, Keith Packard, I think Kaleb > Keithley, etc.) all say that /usr/X11R6 is an abomination and the sooner > it goes away the better. It was a fix for the cases where people were running X11R5 and X11R6 clients.

Re: numlock

2004-04-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, J S wrote: > > > Ah, not the answer I was expecting! Are you pulling my leg or was that a > > serious answer?! > > This is a serious answer. Numlock is treated as modifier key just like caps > lock or control. pressing a key while

Re: xterm 185-3 freetype

2004-03-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Lev Bishop wrote: > xterm 185-3 doesn't seem to have freetype/xft/fontconfig/etc support. it > ignores the faceName resource, and doesn't recognize the -fa command line > option. also cygcheck shows no dependence on > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygXft-2.dll. however, version 185-

Re: [SOLVED] MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-03-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: > > > Hey!! I didn't notice it immediately, but now the problem has > > disappeared (maybe because the new xterm-185?): speed is now 38400 as it > > should be. > > But I d

Re: [SOLVED] MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-03-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: > Hey!! I didn't notice it immediately, but now the problem has > disappeared (maybe because the new xterm-185?): speed is now 38400 as it > should be. But I didn't change anything in xterm. It would probably be something changed in the environment which

Re: Xterm on HP-UX

2004-03-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Wright, David L wrote: > Hello, > > I am using cygwin with xfree68 to connect from my Windows XP machine to a > HP-UX 11.11 machine. I am doing a rlogin from an xterm window. Whenever I > type in a '@' while logged into the HP machine, I also get a new line. This > is preve

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-2 not working and Unicode related craches from xterm

2004-03-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > I'm preparing xterm-185-3 right now using --enable-wide-chars. > > It wasn't clear to me if I should do this the first time around, so I > figured I would just enable it later if it turned out to be needed and > worked on Cygwin. Looks like that is t

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-2 not working and Unicode related craches from xterm

2004-03-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > Hi list > > When running uxterm from xterm-185-2 I get > > 12:47 PM [126]> uxterm > xterm: bad command line option "-u8" The imake configuration normally enables this code; the configure normally does not. There was some discussion last week about c

Re: blinking xterm?

2004-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: > Never mind re any option to turn off blinking. When I could not > get a line in my .Xdefaults file to work: > XTerm.showBlinkAsBold: True That would be XTerm*VT100.showBlinkAsBold: true Most of the resources apply to the vt100 widget. -- Thomas E.

Re: blinking xterm?

2004-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
7;, which corresponds to older versions of xterm, otherwise the default is ``false.'' assuming that's what we're talking about, "xterm -v" would show XFree86 4.4(185) > Thanks. > > Lester > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:47:21PM -0500

Re: blinking xterm?

2004-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
yOn Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: > I just installed the current X packages, noticing that a new xterm > package also was installed. > > I'm getting lots of blinking screens, under mutt, and sometimes just > entering simple text? xterm patch #185 implements blinking text. offhand, if yo

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > > Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > > > > --with-terminal-type=xterm-xfree86 was just so I wouldn't get > > > it set to xterm by default (lynx etc are black and white with > > > it).

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > Thomas, am (are) I (we) missing anything ? Are there any other > options that are enabled or disabled in the xc version ? Perhaps --enable-luit (though I don't recall if anyone's mentioned using it with cygwin). -- Thomas E. Dick

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > I have this built as a Cygwin package using the default configure > options at the moment. The only patch required was to Makefile.in > (attached) to get it to stop appending .exe to the uxterm shell script. > > Thomas, can you recommend any configur

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > xterm patch #185 is post-4.4, and according to fd.o's CVS is not in the > > release-1 branch. > > It may be worth to make it a separate package and start usin

Re: Interim source package compilation instructions

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > 4) If you want to perform a clean rebuild, just run the following > command first before repeating step #3. Beware that removing thousands > of files on my machine takes between 5 and 25 minutes (it varies for > some reason) and could take up to an h

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > > What are the main differences between it and XFree86 4.4.0 ? > > Are things like XTerm 185 included, or everything that goes to > > XFree86 can't to X.org ? > > I don't know about XTerm 185 specifically, but this rele

Re: Okay, I feel stupid

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:01:06AM -0800, Matthew L. Mandalek wrote: > > How do I use cygwin to start a X console on my XP machine like I get on > > the Rad Hat Fedora console? > > > Do you just mean a terminal window or do you mean an X desktop? > > To me

RE: Troubles with an xterm

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was able to get my hands on a Solaris running openwindows. > > The xterm client on the as400 works fine using the Solaris Xserver. > The same xterm client on the as400 does not work with cygwin's > Xserver. > > This leeds me to

RE: Troubles with an xterm

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ah yes > > The as400 is an EBCDIC system, and cygwin is ASCII > > How do I fix this ? It hasn't been (I think) recently tested, but there is a port of xterm to os390 which does some translation to/from EBCDIC. There's a README.os390 in the so

Re: Troubles with an xterm

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am extremely happy using X and cygwin. > > I can easily run xterms from Solaris to cygwin. > I can easily run xterms from Linux to cygwin. > Neither of the above required any configuration on my part. > > Now, I am trying to run an xterm from an as40

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > If the stdin for the menu process isn't a tty, the inherited stdin for > > xterm still won't be a tty. Some stty settings can be set for non-tty's, > > and some cannot. Usually the differences between xterm and rxvt in this > > area are related to

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > This issue has to have something to do with the way that commands are > launched from the .XWinrc menu, since launching an xterm from another > xterm works just fine. Here is the code that launches commands > specified in the .XWinrc menus: > > case

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: > > > In effect opening an xterm within rootless mode I can see from stty that > > the terminal speed is 38400, while opening the same terminal from > > multiwindow mode I see that the speed is 0 (the same d

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: > > > > > >>In effect this modification solves the problem for rlogins launched > >>manually by an xterm, but I does not affect at all com

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: > In effect this modification solves the problem for rlogins launched > manually by an xterm, but I does not affect at all commands inserted > into .XWinrc (they look like "xterm -e rlogin machine -l user"). > > I tried several ways to put the speed to 384

Re: Xman and nroff incompatibility

2004-02-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:57:22PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Rodrigo Medina wrote: > > understand the old style format. In order to obtain the old style > > output one has to call nroff with the -c option. Xman calls nroff > > without the -c option. The man page of xma

Re: Crashing after two or three server resets

2004-01-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > Takuma Murakami wrote: > > > Another problem on server reset is that Japanese keyboard > > layout is ignored after server reset in XDMCP sessions. > > I attach a patch for the problem. > > The patch looks clean to me and I'll apply it to CVS. > > >

Re: [OT] Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

2004-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:33:41PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > The xterm that one runs by clicking on the cygwin icon, the standard > > > > cygwin (not cygwin/X)

Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

2004-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > I understood that, and was hinting that if you chose to make the > > explanation simple & to the point - perhaps to someplace online where it's > > discussed lucidly - you wouldn't have to exercise the keyboard so much. > > A detailed write-up does n

Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

2004-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > The windows console talks to the windows clipboard. > > Does the X clipboard talk to the windows clipboard (or will it someday)? > > This thread is all about this. There is the internal clipboard ma

Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

2004-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > > The xterm that one runs by clicking on the cygwin icon, the standard > > cygwin (not cygwin/X) terminal window. > > This is not xterm. This is just a windows console with bash. The windows console talks to the windows clipbo

Re: Working with fonts

2003-12-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to setup my xterm with the -fn -fs option in order to > increase the font size. I just can't figure out how and which fonts to > select, and therefore it always defaults to "fixed". Does anybody have a > font primer? I'm looking fo

Re: website & identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Okay. > > Each page should now have: > > HEADER MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ > LEFT SIDEBAR MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ > BODY MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ > FOOTER MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ that's better. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ft

Re: website & identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Would CVS identifiers still be useful for whatever you are trying to do? > Maybe I'll start adding them as comments for starters but still keep > the hand-modified date for each page. That's what I do, e.g., http://invisible-island.net/x

Re: website & identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > When perusing the website for news, it would be useful if the pages were > > marked (in their source) as generated or manually updated. For the former > > (unless they're generated on deman

website & identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
When perusing the website for news, it would be useful if the pages were marked (in their source) as generated or manually updated. For the former (unless they're generated on demand), a modification date would also be useful. For the latter, an RCS/CVS/etc identifier to distinguish successive ve

RE: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote: I've seen your postings before, and have no use for your opinions. (that seems to be a common trait of Harold's friends - I don't have to address each one of them). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Sure there was: you would not have exposed yourself as a hypocrite by > doing exactly that which you denounce on your home page (pointed out by > Daniel Armburst). You lambast those "egotistical plagiarists" that yes, I can imagine that you admire t

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: a lot of words. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > >>been corrected later, with a follow email from Harold. > >> > >>It's a simple change to put that right in the CHANGELOG. So I'll do that. > > > > > > I had that on my next set of commits. > > Then why not say so earlier? There was no point in doing

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: > I see only minor inconsitency on his part, that the original commit of > that code didn't attribute it to its author in the CVS logs, while at > least some other commits do note authors of patches. However, he didn't > explicitly take credit for it, like

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: > > > > > >>The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the > >>ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author. &g

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote: > Thomas, > > If you did get this code directly from Cygwin/X's tree then I'd of > expected at least the credit to be apportioned to Harold at the very > least, rather than putting your name against it. Ralf's name could have > been corrected later, with

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to > attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community > at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit. yes, you're right. now I'll have to scrutinize

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: > The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the > ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author. well that's polite enough. unlike Harold. no problem. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Put Ralf's name in the change log!!! you first. (hmm - that's an appropriate pun). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > > > > >>>Your commit didn't mention this either. > >> > >>Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by > committing them without proper attribution. your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than offering commit access to someone who solved a problem that (ac

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > Your commit didn't mention this either. > > Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were > attributed to Ralf Habacker: tsk, tsk: the actual commit on the code change bears only your name. A casual reader of that commit (and of t

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that > Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas > found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch. > >

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Bugs?

2003-10-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Seriously, I don't know why I waste my time submitting patches that are > specific to my platform and then wait up to three weeks for them to be > committed. It is a waste of my time and an insult that I am made to do well, when you graduate and (pr

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