Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/08/07/10:38:42
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:48:50AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 4 19:38, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Does anyone actually use insight on Cygwin? Keith Seitz, the insight
>> maintainer, has recently made changes which will allow insight to work
>> with a non-special version of tcl/tk rather than the hacked version that
>> it had previously been built with. That opens the door to building a
>> real version of tcl/tk for cygwin and linking insight to it.
>> Unfortunately, I believe that would mean that insight would need to run
>> in an X window rather than natively.
>>
>> The other alternative is to nuke insight entirely. Is anyone really
>> relying on it? Since I barely test it when I release gdb, I'd expect
>> that there would be problem reports but I don't remember seeing any for
>> quite some time.
>
>Right now, we have tcl and tk libs which are not using the standard
>naming convention for Cygwin DLLs. Doesn't that leave room for having
>two versions of insight? We could keep the old tcl84.dll and tk84.dll
>and a w-insight which is built against that. Plus other older tcl/tk
>apps would still run. And we can have new versions of tcl and tk which
>use the Cygwin naming convention and are linked against the X lib, plus
>a new x-insight.
So I asked if anyone was using insight, suggesting that maybe it should
be retired and your counter suggestion is that I should provide two
versions of insight and two versions of tcl/tk (one of them hacked)
around instead?
No thanks.
cgf
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