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On 5/21/2015 8:20 PM, Michael Enright wrote: > @Yaakov, many of us have a Cygwin requirement imposed on them for > reasons that maybe even you would argue against. Given that Cygwin > runs in a world where using GDI is economical and using X is costly, > and given that downloading and installing updates is a burden that > seems to grow ever larger as packages sprout dependencies on each > other, I would like to see the emergence of a new consensus that > clarifies to what extent X Windows is important to Cygwin as a whole. > It clearly is important to some programs but is it so essential to the > Cygwin ecosystem that the burden of using X is to be imposed on so > many unwilling Cygwin users? > Dear Michael, please note that in the past we had GDI packages and all of them died as the maintenance burden was not matched by volunteers. The last one, perl-Win32-GUI, is in the same state. On TCL/TK, if I remember right we arrived at a point where it was not possible to compile other packages depending on it; its GDI leg was interfering with the unix root of the rest of cygwin, it was a mess. Going X we cut the knot. If you look at the list of maintainers https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint you will notice that it is very very short. Basically: Corinna is handling the cygwin core Yaakov is handlig > 50% of the packages Jon is handling all the X server Achim is handling all perl Ken is handling all texlive Add me, Jary and Volker and we cover ~ 90% of all packages Please consider the additional burden you are asking to the limited maintainers' resources. Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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