From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27027 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2009 21:28:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 27019 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jan 2009 21:28:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (HELO ey-out-1920.google.com) (74.125.78.150) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:27:33 +0000 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1032049eyg.20 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:27:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.120.7 with SMTP id s7mr33241531ebc.78.1231709250121; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:27:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.5? (92-235-183-122.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.183.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm714423eyb.11.2009.01.11.13.27.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:27:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <496A646C.7080504@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:18:00 -0000 From: Andy Koppe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3) References: <20090111040508.GA8342@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <496A54F6.7020107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <496A54F6.7020107@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00300.txt.bz2 Charles Wilson wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> If so, should we consider deprecating rxvt in >> favor of MinTTY when MinTTY becomes a real package? >> >> If not, there is no harm in keeping two packages in the distribution. I >> was just trying to lighten your load if you were interested. > > I'd lean toward keeping both in the distro Same here. > (mainly because I'd hate to > see a never-ending flood of "where'd rxvt go?" queries. That'd be more > of a pain than the relatively infrequent updates that rxvt gets). And I'd be dreading the inevitable demands to implement every single feature and option that rxvt provides. > You mean like another setup.exe pane (or option in an existing pane) to > select the terminal that should be started by the "default" Cygwin link > in the Start Menu? That's an interesting idea... How about just providing Start Menu shortcuts for all installed terminals in a "Cygwin" folder, much like Yaakov has done in MinTTY's cygports package? The user could always copy them to more easily accessible places as needed, or just rely on the recently-used list. >> Or just switch rxvt to the regular X11 version w/o all the libW11 hackery? Bypassing the X protocol by implementing Xlib directly on Win32 does seem rather a good idea in principle at least. How come it hasn't been used more widely? Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/