Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3B5B61CE.6010901@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:29:18 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: E CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Did some porting for cygwin References: <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 0 DOT 20010722165317 DOT 00a07610 AT bastion DOT datatask DOT com DOT au> <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 0 DOT 20010723083425 DOT 00a7aa50 AT 192 DOT 168 DOT 1 DOT 1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit E wrote: > At 12:36 PM 22/07/2001 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> The cygwin-xfree people get justifiably upset when a "fork" like this >> happens (and make no mistake, what you're proposing is a fork -- or >> will become one once the inevitable version-skew happens). > > > I think the mistake is on your part. I am not proposing a fork. I am > suggesting that the freetype package be contributed by cygwin-xfree into > the base set of packages for cygwin. Ah. It sounded like you wanted a freetype package, separate from what was distributed (already) by the cygwin-xfree people. Sorry for the misunderstanding. > If the answer to that is "it will > happen soon, just wait a bit" then that's fine. I *think* that is the current plan -- modulo splitting it out from the Xbin.tgz package and into its own "freetype" package. If the cygwin-xfree folks don't want to do that, then it ain't gonna happen -- cgf has already given them veto power *specifically* over libfreetype. (Long story, go read the thread in cgywin-xfree mailing list archives) > You could have said > that without the condescendence(tm). Didn't intend to be so. Sorry if it came across that way. >> Besides, freetype is useless without the X libraries, anyway. > > > Well, judging from the original email, it is at least useful for PHP, > which is not X based to my knowledge. I know I've used it in another > application that was not X based. So I guess it is not totally useless > with the X libraries, anyway. Well, back in the day when I provided libfreetype-1 from the CygUtils webpage, it did depend on X. However, it appears that freetype-2 no longer does -- I just did a cygcheck on the latest libfreetype.dll from cygwin-xfree-4.1.0/Xbin.tgz, and it doesn't depend on any of the X dll's. So, it looks like you're right -- my info was out of date. Sorry for the confusion. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/