Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Kendall Bennett wrote: David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though I have XFree86 CVS commit access, I do most of my new work in a separate tree, which I keep in sync with the XFree86 tree. I don't find this to be a significant burden. Sure, I don't do actual

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-27 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Even though I have XFree86 CVS commit access, I do most of my new work in a separate tree, which I keep in sync with the XFree86 tree. I don't find this to be a significant burden. Sure, I don't do actual development in that tree either.

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-26 Thread Kendall Bennett
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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-26 Thread Kendall Bennett
David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-26 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Kendall Bennett wrote: 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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-26 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:58:53AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-26 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:53:40AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: 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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
David Dawes wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:53:40AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: 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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-26 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:56:37PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:53:40AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: 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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-26 Thread mark kandianis
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. i don't understand this. is your perforce server just a ditto of the xfree86 cvs? or does it do more? there's lots of copies

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-26 Thread Kendall Bennett
David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since it sounds like you think this is a good idea, can I get CVS commit access to complete this work? Even though I have XFree86 CVS commit access, I do most of my new work in a separate tree, which I keep in sync with the XFree86 tree. I don't find

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-24 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:17:30AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: 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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-24 Thread Martin Spott
David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:17:30AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: [...], 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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Martin Spott wrote: David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:17:30AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: [...], 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

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-24 Thread David Dawes
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:18:29PM +, Martin Spott wrote: David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:17:30AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: [...], and I am in discussions with some of the other members of the community about starting a new project to take over where the

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Martin Spott wrote: David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:17:30AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: [...], and I am in discussions with some of the other members of the community about starting a new project to take over where