RE: patches for xfree86

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

>
> If you can post (or put on the web) a list of what needs
> to be done and how
> to go about doing it, I may be able to find some time to
> work on it.  In
> general, I've found that lists like that get taken up by
> eager programmers
> if the 'what and how to do it' are well described, as the
> learning curve is
> smaller.
>
> Nils.
>


Hi Nils,

Thanks for message and your continued interest in Cygwin-xfre
project.
Last night, I received instructions from Cygnus System Admin, on how
to upload web pages.

I will work on web pages this weekend and hopefully upload them.

The patches for Xfree86 official code base were for GCC/Cygwin
and MSVC. To avoid confrontation with commercial X-server vendors,
I submitted patches for MSVC too.  The X-server would be developed
with GCC/Cygwin, but MSVC would allow users to compile X11 libs
and clients for development purposes.  The major objection from
commercial X vendors was the future development of Win32 products
for Xfree86/Win32.

Regards
Suhaib

>
>
> In message
> <NDBBLHPPKKBKPBLLMFJBOEHOCDAA.ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>, "Suhaib
> Si
> ddiqi" writes:
> >
> >
> >Our patches for Xfree86 4.0 (in dvelopemnt) had been accepted by
> >xfree86.org
> >It is a big patch file therefore they (Xfree86.org)
> needs to filter
> >it and make sure cygwin patches do not break other OS.
> >
> >I am still looking for help for devices drivers issue.
> i posted to
> >several comp.os.windows.* news groups.  A few of the developers
> >replied.
> >Yariv, owner and maintainer of, www.internal.com  also
> have agreed
> >to give expert advice.  He would not be able to do
> actual coding due
> >lack of free time.
> >
> >Suhaib
> >
>
>