RE: XFree 4.1.0

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: E. Lassauge [mailto:ros_at1@muzillac.tls.mms.fr] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 4:54 AM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi
> Cc: xbugs@x.org
> Subject: Re: XFree 4.1.0
> 
> 
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> > 
> > there are two stipple  (stipple and Stipple)  M$ is case-sensitive 
> > illerate. You are compare apples against the oranges on 
> CVS.  Cygwin 
> > port has stipple missing because M$ not us. I have not come 
> up with a 
> > fix for it yet, but it would require a extensive testing of several 
> > clients for which now (or in near future) I do not have time.
> > 
> > Suhaib
> >
> I'm sorry but I didn't find any Stipple file in xc/include/bitmaps:
> (http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/include/bitmaps/)

YOU WONT"T FIND THERE BECAUSE YOU ARE LOOKING IN THE WRONG PLACE.  IT DOES
NOT MEAN IT IS A BUG IN X AND IT WAS WRONG TO SEND IT AS A BUG TO X
ORGANIZATION.

> 
> OK I found in http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.1.0/source/FILES:
> -rw-r--r-- dawes/wheel     133 1994-04-27 03:07
> xc/include/bitmaps/stipple
> -rw-r--r-- dawes/wheel      96 1994-04-27 03:12
> xc/programs/bitmap/Stipple
> 
> After checking the Imakefile in xc/programs/bitmap I saw that 
> the local bitmap files ARE installed in /usr/X11R6/include/bitmap, 
> and here was the problem with M$ case-sensitive stuff. 
> Perhaps is this more a XFree issue but the different names

NOPE!

 
> (Upper case first latter and all lowercase) are not very well 
> chosen. 

NOPE!  THOSE FILES ARE THERE SINCE YEARS.  MICROSOFT WINDOWS "IS NOT WELL
CHOSEN" TO DEAL WITH UPPER CASE AND LOWER CASE (CASE-SENSITIVE NAMES).  

	
Suhaib

>You end up in 
> /usr/X11R6/include/bitmaps with several mixed-case file: 
> that's not very "beautiful" :->
> 
> BTW I'm aware of the M$ case-sensitive problem 
> (everyone is aware of that, no ?) ;->
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: E. Lassauge [mailto:ros_at1@muzillac.tls.mms.fr]
> > > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:27 AM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> > > Subject: XFree 4.1.0
> > >
> > >
> > >       Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm currently trying to port xscreensaver to Cygwin/XFree86 and I 
> > > had a problem when compiling one of the screenhacks, the 
> compilation 
> > > ended when using a "predefined" bitmap
> > > include: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/stipple
> > > This file came with the binary installation of XFree and is
> > > erroneous: the variable names are Stipple_something instead of 
> > > stipple_something.
> > >
> > > I had a look at the CVS code using the CVS browser at 
> xfree.org and 
> > > their 1.1.1.1 stipple file is very different from the one used in 
> > > Cygwin/Xfree (it came from Xlib.tgz):
> > >
> > > original Cygwin/XFree:
> > > #define Stipple_width 2
> > > #define Stipple_height 2
> > > static char Stipple_bits[] = {
> > >    0x01, 0x00};
> > > Xfree :
> > > #define stipple_width 16
> > > #define stipple_height 4
> > > static char stipple_bits[] = {
> > >    0x55, 0x55, 0xee, 0xee, 0x55, 0x55, 0xba, 0xbb};
> > >
> > >       Dunno where this is coming from ? Hope someone can 
> answer ...
> > >
> > > PS:   that's not crucial, I modified the file of course :->
> > >       I just wanted to know why they were different ....
> > >
> > > PPS: see my cygwin/XFree ported apps at 
> > > http://lassauge.free.fr/cygwin/
> > > --
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