Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

[Doug VanLeuven]

Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> Charles Wilson wrote:
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>>Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight'
>>*must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI.
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> Tk must remain Win32GUI, or *a* Win32GUI Tk must remain, for the sake of
> insight?
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>>It may be possible, eventually, to have both win32GUI-cygwin-runtime-tk
>>and XGUI-cygwin-runtime-tk on the same machine, but nobody has
>>undertaken the daunting task to make that happen.  Ditto gtk.
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> Others have mentioned building *NIX tcl/tk on Cygwin, and I wouldn't
> call building gtk2 daunting; I'm not personally interested, as I'm
> focusing on the X11 ports.
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>>However, I don't see the problem in assuming that GUI apps are presumed
>>to be X-flavor (with the tk exception, above).  If at some point
>>somebody figures out how to build a similar GUI app/toolkit in the
>>opposite flavor, it can go in /opt/.
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Static X based tcl/tk is doable now.  I needed it because I had a
X based tcl/tk app that didn't work right with the cyg native
tcl/tk.  dll's will take some effort and coordination upstream.

Regards, Doug

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