Does anyone use insight on cygwin?

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Aug 5 14:40:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:37:48AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> Brian Dessent wrote:
> | Do you think git users are going to be thrilled about having to now
> | install and run the whole X11 server enchalada just to run gitk on
> | Windows?  The current GDI tcl/tk is a double-edged sword: ancient, yes,
> | but also quite convenient.
>
> Not always so convenient, actually.  For one, some packages assume that
> tk is X11 based:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-08/msg00018.html
>
> Secondly, GDI and Cygwin don't always make a good mix, e.g.:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-07/msg00457.html
>
> Just to name a few recent incidents.
>
> As for the installation requirements, remember that the new X11 will be
> modular, and since tk only requires libX11, the install will be much
> lighter than in the past.

We may have a modular X eventually but without a real supported server I
think we still have a problem here.

cgf

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