freedesktop.org - Hosting for future Cygwin/X development

2003-10-29 Thread Ely
yea, and guess what? Xouvert is hosted on.. yep freedesktop.org:) and is actually suppose to be the place where developers commit patchs which couldn't get into XFree. The only thing is that they decided to use arch rather than CVS. Ely

Re: freedesktop.org - Hosting for future Cygwin/X development

2003-10-29 Thread Keith Packard
If your comfortable with root privileges, please feel free to use 'sudo' to create a new project and user accounts for whomever you like. There are instructions for doing that at: http://freedesktop.org/Main/HowToUse Note that the 'usradm.sh' script doesn't check the state of the databa

Re: freedesktop.org - Hosting for future Cygwin/X development

2003-10-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Keith Packard wrote: Around 12 o'clock on Oct 29, Harold L Hunt II wrote: 2) Import the XFree86.org CVS tree into a repository on freedesktop.org. I would appreciate help on this, but I could get to it within a few weeks if it hasn't been done by then. Anyone with a recent CVS mirror of XFree8

Re: freedesktop.org - Hosting for future Cygwin/X development

2003-10-29 Thread David Fraser
Harold L Hunt II wrote: I am interested in the work going on in the xlibs and xserver repositories, which are an autotooled build of most X libs and the X Server. I was able to build all but Xft from CVS (need a newer version of FontConfig to build the latest Xft) using static libs, but it sh

freedesktop.org - Hosting for future Cygwin/X development

2003-10-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I have been talking a lot to the developers at freedesktop.org: http://freedesktop.org/ On their Software page, you will see that they have a new tree with most useful X libs and the kdrive X Server: http://freedesktop.org/Software/Home http://freedesktop.org/Software/xlibs http://freedesktop.o