Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > I propose that documentation in general should go to /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE > even for X11 packages and the main man page directory should be dictated > by the generic X11 tree, which is right now /usr/X11R6/man/manX (X=1,) > > Any comments ? Why

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Ford wrote: > Why do you propose keeping a distinct X11R6 tree yet puting documentation > outside it. I would prefer these to be consistent. FWIW, Debian and Gentoo both do as proposed. > IIRC, Harold had decided to eliminate the X11R6 subtree

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: What does "Cygwin native" mean? If Cygwin is meant to be a POSIX environment, then X11 should be the standard for GUI apps. Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight' *must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI.

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Wilson wrote: > Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight' > *must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI. Tk must remain Win32GUI, or *a* Win32GUI Tk must remain, for the sake of insight? > It

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Others have mentioned building *NIX tcl/tk on Cygwin, and I wouldn't call building gtk2 daunting; Daunting to build it in such a way that (a) the win32 version doesn't interfere with the X version, (b) vice versa, and (c) you're SURE that nothing win32-runtime

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Charles Wilson wrote: Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: [...] What's stopping us from moving the Win32 tcltk in /opt/win32, and making new *NIX tcl and tk packages in /usr? Then all that's necessary for insight is to add /opt/win32 to PATH (either through a script, profile.d, or manually). Simil

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 10 21:59, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > >Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > [...] > >>What's stopping us from moving the Win32 tcltk in /opt/win32, and making > >>new *NIX tcl and tk packages in /usr? Then all that's necessary for > >>insight is to add /opt/win32 to PATH (

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Doug VanLeuven
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Wilson wrote: Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight' *must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI. Tk must remain Win32GUI, or *a* Win32GUI Tk must remai

RE: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > > 1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? > > 1 (one) > Harold also stated: "Look, it has been made quite clear to us on several occasions that Red Hat doesn't pay for anyone in their company to do development on Cygwin[...]" Is this correct? -- Gary R. Van Sickle

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: All of this mucking about with tk and insight requires the concurrence of -- and oodles of extra work by -- the tk maintainer and the insight maintainer. Plus, given the centrality of the debugger to the GNUPro product, this sort of change might

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] 1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? 1 (one) Harold also stated: "Look, it has been made quite clear to us on several occasions that Red Hat doesn't pay for anyone in their company to do development on Cygwin[...]" Is this correct?

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:08:50PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: >Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>[snip] 1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? >>> >>>1 (one) >> >>Harold also stated: >>"Look, it has been made quite clear to us on several occasions that Red Hat >>doesn't pa

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:08:50PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] 1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? 1 (one) Harold also stated: "Look, it has been made quite clear to us on several occasions that Red

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:40:33PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:08:50PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: >> >>>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>> [snip] >>1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? > >1