Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

[marco atzeri]

On 3/1/2012 8:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [your mailer doesn't set In-Reply-To correctly, which means you are
> starting a bunch of new threads instead of replying in-thread]
>
> On 03/01/2012 10:53 AM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
>> "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" wrote:
>>> Using X requires user intervention to start an X server first.  No
>>> amount of automatic dependencies will change this, and therefore I
>> don't
>>> expect that the number of questions would change one iota.
>>
>> You don't think that Setup telling the user "package xyz requires
>> package xinit" might at least tip off some users that running xyz now
>> requires starting an X server?
>>
>> Even if it doesn't reduce the questions, would it at least reduce the
>> problem of users now having to run Setup a second time to download and
>> install the xinit package?
>
> While I can't control whether Yaakov adds xinit as a dependency to
> tcl-tk, I personally wouldn't mind adding xinit as a prereq to gitk and
> git-gui, since I maintain that package.  There's still that annoyance
> factor that just depending on xinit won't get X running, but at least it
> will let you download all the bits in one run of setup.exe instead of
> hitting the FAQ and finding out you have to rerun setup.exe.
>

Eric,
I understand the logic of Yaakov, but I expect that 99.9% of user using
git-gui will use the x-server on cygwin.

At least the mantainer of  clisp-clx had the same thought
about its package:

sdesc: "The new-clx module linkset for clisp"
ldesc: "This is the linkset full+new-clx for X.Org."
category: Interpreters
requires: clisp xorg-server libXpm4 libXt6 cygwin

So your proposal for gittk and git-gui fits in the same view

Regards
Marco


Regards
Marco

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