Texteroids (Minor Retraction)

[Nicholas Wourms]

Ok,

I forgot the fact that building libdps depends on "strict motif" or gtk
libs, the former not being "open source" (nor legally available for
windows) and the latter still being ported to cygwin by Harold.  I
apologize for the minor confusion, as I was still thinking in "linux
mode".  For the curious, please check out:

http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/dps.html
http://dps.sourceforge.net/ --> Show actual textroids screenshot in linux
http://www.gyve.org/gtkDPS/

<rant>
I do have some commentary regarding the so-called "Open Group".  There is
nothing that pisses me of more then that oxymoron of a name.  Yet another
example of academic innovation being commericialized for corporate greed
and profit (The last time I checked MIT did recieve government subsidies).
 Personally I feel like giving the "Open Group" the finger by porting the
motif sources to cygwin and providing to all interested for download. 
Lets face it, lesstif is nice, but it is still not there yet in terms of
full compatibility.  Frankly, the excuses used to classify cygwin as a
non-open source platform are splitting hairs in my opinion.  But,  again,
these are my opinions and you are free to disagree.  I just felt I needed
to release some steam about this pet peeve of mine.
</rant>

Cheers,
Nicholas
--- Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ummm,
> 
> Excuse me but you are wrong.  If you care to read
> http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/RELNOTES2.html you will notice the line
> that
> says:
> -initial DPS extension support
> If you still doubt me, then check out the xfree cvs repository:
> http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/dpstk/ or
> http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/dps/
> 
> Now the $40K question is, why isn't this library being built in the
> cygwin
> distro?  Probably no one has attempted to do so, but I'm sure harold can
> tell you what changes to your hosts.dep are necessary to attempt to
> build
> it, should you decide to embark on the journey to build support in to
> your
> xfree.
> 
> In fact this extension has been available for use since 4.0.3, IIRC.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
> --- Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 04:00:51 +0800, Zechy Wong wrote:
> > > Hi, something happened when I tried to run texteroids.
> > > An X window was open, and when I ran texteroids a black box
> > > appeared briefly before disappearing.  These are the messages I got:
> > > 
> > > %% DPS Client Library Warning:
> > >    Auto-launching DPS NX agent.
> > > %% DPS Client Library Warning:
> > >    FAILED to auto-launch:
> > >     dpsnx.agent
> > > 
> > > texteroids: DPS is not available.
> > > You need an X server with the DPS extension, or a DPS NX agent.
> > > 
> > > Wonder if anyone could help?
> > 
> > That's the Adobe Display PostScript extension. It's not open source
> > so the server extension isn't in Cygwin/XFree86.
> > 
> > Basically. Tough. You can't run that app on this Xserver.
> > 
> > I know the Solaris Xsun server's have, but we don't.
> > 
> > Alan.
> 
> 
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