XWin design suggestion

[Harold L Hunt II]

I tried checking the CVS repository out, but it says:

harold@kraftwerk ~/x-devel
$ cvs co win32-x11
cvs server: Updating win32-x11
cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/src/win32-x11' 
(/cvs/src/w
in32-x11/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/src/win32-x11'
cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up



Harold

Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> Harold
> 
> I never unsubscribed from Cygwin-xfree and Cygwin lists.  I only went
> into passive mood because why bable when I could not contribute :-)
> 
> I will send you CD once I have your info.
> 
> Chris had win32-x11 project setup with a mailing list and CVS
> repository.  Is it still there?  If it is, maybe you take it over.  It
> will allow other contributors to access code via CVS and contribute.
> 
> Suhaib  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:21 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
> 
> Suhaib,
> 
> I was wondering if you had been watching the list :)
> 
> Yes, I think I would be interested in that CD.  I will email you 
> off-list with my address.
> 
> Harold
> 
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
>>I had been watching the list.  Harold had done some excellent work on
>>advancing Cygwin/Xfree to current status.
>>
>>It was my goal too, to compile XWin.exe with Microsoft Visual Studio.
>>The initial work was done with Cygwin to get this going and make
> 
> porting
> 
>>to VC easier.  Therefore Win32-X11 at Source.redhat.com was started.
> 
> I
> 
>>was able to patch all the libraries and xclients, even 70% of XWin.exe
>>code written by Harold.  However, due to my increasing
> 
> responsibilities
> 
>>at work, I had no spare time and stop contributing to several Open
>>Source projects, like Cygwin/xfree, win32-x11, opendx, and lesstif.
>>
>>I do still have patched sources of win32-x11 stored on a CD.  Harold
> 
> if
> 
>>you need it, and you think it might be useful, I cant send the CD to
>>you. It is now almost a year old patched work of Xfree86 4.1.0.  I am
>>sure some of the X-libraries will require patching again. Compilation
>>with Visual C does require MinW32 version of Flex and Bison.  Flex is
>>needed to compile some of the fonts.
>>
>>Suhaib  
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
>>[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:49 AM
>>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
>>
>>Sylvain,
>>
>>Because, as I have reiterated over and over, XWin.exe is a Windows 
>>application, not a Cygwin application.
>>
>>As an aside, one of my goals is to have a stand-alone version of 
>>XWin.exe, building off of Suhaib's work, that does not depend upon 
>>Cygwin at all.  It will mostly be a proof of concept, but it would
> 
> also 
> 
>>be cool if X.org accepted the code into their sample implementation. 
>>Granted, it wouldn't have all of the libraries and programs, but it 
>>would be an X Server that ran on Windows.
>>
>>Thus, I want to avoid making XWin.exe a Cygwin app.  Others may not 
>>agree, but that is certainly my goal.
>>
>>Harold
>>
>>Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Why would we write outside of the cygwin filesystem to complete this ?
>>>Let us remain structured.
>>>
>>>--- Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> a écrit : 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Biju,
>>>>I think we all forgot about one option: Why don't we use the
>>>>interface 
>>>>to (for example) C:\Documents and Settings\User_Foo\Application 
>>>>Data\CygwinXFree86\... ?  Is there such an interface or is it largely
>>>
>>>
>>>>just an issue of getting the proper directory to write your config
>>>>files to?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>=====
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>>
>>#170597259
>>
>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>
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