Web page modifications ready for proofreading

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: RE: Web page modifications ready for proofreading


> > As I understand it, there are no text mode problems - unless you are
> > compiling X.
> >
> > So Harold, that should be "Install all Cygwin packages, only deviate
> > from these instructions if you are an expert."
>
> Well, I'm not going to have potential contributers shooting themselves
in
> the foot without knowing it.  The way I see it, you have one chance to
hook
> a contributer; you can't make a single instruction obscure or leave
out a
> simple instruction that takes someone a couple hours to figure out on
their
> own, if you do, you just lost a potential contributer.

I understand.

> Of course, leaving out those simple instructions or making them
obscure will
> cost you time on the mailing list :)
>
> As Chris said, the ultimate solution is to patch imake so that it
links with
> binmode.o.  I don't want to remove my binmode instructions until a
patch to
> imake is accepted by XFree86 and released in a new source release.  We
still
> have a few days or weeks (I don't remember which) to get such a patch
into
> XFree86 4.1.0, as it should be considered a bug fix.

No. Imake should link with textmode or automode. binmode is when you
want binary files - ie fonts and bitmaps read correctly.
Rob

> Harold
>
>