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Subject: Re: Does anyone use insight on cygwin?
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On Aug  4 19:38, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Does anyone actually use insight on Cygwin?  Keith Seitz, the insight
> maintainer, has recently made changes which will allow insight to work
> with a non-special version of tcl/tk rather than the hacked version that
> it had previously been built with.  That opens the door to building a
> real version of tcl/tk for cygwin and linking insight to it.
> Unfortunately, I believe that would mean that insight would need to run
> in an X window rather than natively.
> 
> The other alternative is to nuke insight entirely.  Is anyone really
> relying on it?  Since I barely test it when I release gdb, I'd expect
> that there would be problem reports but I don't remember seeing any for
> quite some time.

Right now, we have tcl and tk libs which are not using the standard
naming convention for Cygwin DLLs.  Doesn't that leave room for having
two versions of insight?  We could keep the old tcl84.dll and tk84.dll
and a w-insight which is built against that.  Plus other older tcl/tk
apps would still run.  And we can have new versions of tcl and tk which
use the Cygwin naming convention and are linked against the X lib, plus
a new x-insight.


Corinna

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