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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [ITP] VirtualGL 2.6.3
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:45:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17de8383-933c-6bb5-e585-192ff0ef6198@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ba60d19-d942-393c-87fc-a3d2f5af2726@users.sourceforge.net>

On 16/06/2020 04:11, DRC via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 
> NOTE:
> As to whether the VirtualGL package should depend on Cygwin/X and
> OpenSSH, technically the vglconnect script and vglclient application,
> despite running in a Cygwin environment, could still be used with an
> external X server and SSH implementation not provided by Cygwin.  Thus,
> it's my opinion that the VirtualGL package should not depend on Cygwin/X
> and the Cygwin-provided OpenSSH package.  However, I am open to being
> convinced otherwise, particularly if there is an established precedent.

We don't make any other X clients depend on the X server, for the same 
reason, so this seems good to me.

> On 6/13/20 2:11 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 12.06.2020 22:53, DRC via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> I intend to package the client for VirtualGL, a toolkit that adds
>>> server-side GPU-accelerated OpenGL rendering capabilities to existing
>>> remote X or X proxy environments.
>>>
>>> VirtualGL is currently provided by various Linux distributions and
>>> FreeBSD:
>>> https://pkgs.org/download/virtualgl
>>> https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=VirtualGL
>>>
>>> It is licensed under the wxWidgets Library License v3.1:
>>> https://opensource.org/licenses/WXwindows
>>>
>>> Archive containing proposed package files:
>>> https://turbovnc.org/downloads/VirtualGL-cygwin.tar.bz2

Looks good to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-16 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-12 20:53 DRC
2020-06-13  7:11 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-16  3:11   ` DRC
2020-06-16 14:45     ` Jon Turney [this message]
2020-06-16 14:55       ` Jon Turney
2020-06-18  0:05       ` DRC
2020-06-18  5:42         ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-24  3:40           ` DRC
2020-06-24 21:21             ` Jon Turney
2020-06-25 22:07             ` DRC
2020-06-25 22:11               ` Jon Turney
2020-06-26  3:11                 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-26  4:31                   ` DRC

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