XWin design suggestion (Win32)

[Harold L Hunt II]

Suhaib,

I don't think I need to do all of that adminstrative stuff just yet. 
Right now I am looking at this as more of a long-term goal.  I will 
revive the Win32-X11 project if I ever get some code that compiles. 
Until then I will just work on it on my own when I have some time.

Thanks for your help,

Harold

Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> Harold
> 
> Chris may have deleted the CVS.  He maybe able to help you reset it and
> add you as a administrator to win32-x11.  However, sources in win32-x11
> CVS were screwed up.  The last update I did to win32-x11 CVS was during
> my middle of move from North Carolina to California and somehow I
> screwed up the sources.  A few users reported missing files and
> directories.  The version of CD should be complete with sources, and
> pre-compiled binaries.
> 
> If you are willing to take over the Win32-X11 project, please consult
> with Chris for admin privileges. The web pages will need to be updated
> too and you can move my name there to "Project Orginator" (Like
> Cygwin/Xfree86 project) instead of maintainer and active contributor.
> 
> I would be more then glad to help you off-line with porting questions ad
> fixes.  However, unfortunately, I will not be able to actively
> contribute or do some actual work.  You are an excellent programming and
> I am confident you would could get things done much faster.
> 
> 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 11:33 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
> 
> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>=====
>>>>Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle at users dot sourceforge dot net) ICQ
>>>
>>>#170597259
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>>
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