Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/08/01:41:12
In answer to your previous question about "interesting" things in U/Win, one
other thing I saw is that U/Win implements its symbolic links as Windows
shortcuts, and vice-versa (existing shortcuts appear as links, although with
the .lnk extension).
And, in spite of the problems I know it would cause, the registry as file
system sounds really cool.
Vince
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
[mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:43 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: ksh93? -- also u/win question
I wonder if we should start announcing successfull ports to freshmeat
or slashdot.
I did announce the last Cygwin DLL update on freshmeat.
It would be nice for this project to get a little more exposure, I think.
I'd be interested in seeing a GNOME collaboration, though, FWIW.
cgf
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:25:22PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>I successfully ported everthing but the glibmodule code & the esound
>interface. After a few abortive enquiries here (helpful answers but I
>did not know enough about dlopen* to debug what was happening) I left it
>for dead. I believe someone else has had a bit more success. And yes
>the xfree86 (www.cygwin.com/xfree86) port worked with what I built. I
>still have the source tree with the patched files around somewhere.
>
>100 lines of source sounds about right. Took me two days :] (I skipped
>the gmodules once I had it building.. it was failing on tests not
>compilation).
>
>Corba was trivial (Thanks to cygwin's support for domain sockets et
>al)... Even hacked it to support win9x, although with a commensurate
>loss of security.
>
>So if someone that groks libtool & dlopen & libtldl properly wants to
>collaborate on this... let me know.
>
>Rob
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
>> Sent: Thursday, 8 February 2001 4:20 PM
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Re: ksh93? -- also u/win question
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:01:33AM -0500, Dennis McCunney wrote:
>> >>Can you give an example of some of the clever ideas in uwin? I know
>> >>that they have some sort of setuid daemon or something like
>> that but it
>> >>has been a while since I really investigated U/WIN.
>> >
>> >The main thing of interest is that Global Technologies, Ltd, the
>> >commercial liscensing outfit that sells supported commercial versions
>> >of U/WIN, has successfully ported GNOME to it. They claim it took
>> >under two weeks to port 4 million lines of code, and less than one
>> >hundred lines of source changes were required.
>>
>> Yeah, I saw that. I imagine that porting to Cygwin would be
>> similar. Hmm.
>> I think it may already be done. Should we announce this to
>> the world, too?
>>
>> I got contacted by one of the people from Global Technologies
>> a while ago.
>> He was asking about the Cygwin Xfree86 project that Suhaib
>> Siddiqi is heading.
>>
>> He saw a lot of "overlap between the product lines" and was picking my
>> brains for exactly how much of the Xfree86 port and gcc he
>> could package
>> with his software. My feeling was that he wanted to find out how much
>> he could use for free.
>>
>> I would be thrilled to collaborate with the guys at AT&T but
>> somehow I don't
>> see much happening with the people who are trying to sell
>> U/WIN commercially.
>>
>> cgf
>>
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