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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:28:12 +0000
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3)
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Charles Wilson wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> If so, should we consider deprecating rxvt in
>> favor of MinTTY when MinTTY becomes a real package?
>>
>> If not, there is no harm in keeping two packages in the distribution.  I
>> was just trying to lighten your load if you were interested.
> 
> I'd lean toward keeping both in the distro

Same here.

> (mainly because I'd hate to
> see a never-ending flood of "where'd rxvt go?" queries. That'd be more
> of a pain than the relatively infrequent updates that rxvt gets).

And I'd be dreading the inevitable demands to implement every single 
feature and option that rxvt provides.

> You mean like another setup.exe pane (or option in an existing pane) to
> select the terminal that should be started by the "default" Cygwin link
> in the Start Menu?  That's an interesting idea...

How about just providing Start Menu shortcuts for all installed 
terminals in a "Cygwin" folder, much like Yaakov has done in MinTTY's 
cygports package? The user could always copy them to more easily 
accessible places as needed, or just rely on the recently-used list.

>> Or just switch rxvt to the regular X11 version w/o all the libW11 hackery?

Bypassing the X protocol by implementing Xlib directly on Win32 does 
seem rather a good idea in principle at least. How come it hasn't been 
used more widely?

Andy

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