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Subject: RE: ksh93? -- also u/win question
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:25:22 +1100
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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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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