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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 00:43:28 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: ksh93? -- also u/win question
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In-Reply-To: <EA18B9FA0FE4194AA2B4CDB91F73C0EF02E17B@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:25:22PM +1100

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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