Re: Various problems and/or questions on Insight 5.2.1

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@netscape.net>]

Hi,

Having discussed this with others on the Cygwin list, I'd 
like to chime in on this thread.  You said:

"Ugh. That means that more than just tcl and tk was messed 
up by the "merge". [You know, I've often considered starting 
over with the "port" to cygwin for 8.3 -- or with Mumit 
Khan's work. It can't be nearly as botched as what we have 
now.]"

If you do go this course, might I recomend that you use 
Cygwin/XFree for the gui front end?  The Cygwin/XFree 
project is just a few months away from rootless mode.  You 
could have a tcl script automatically start the rootless x 
in the background when the programmer starts up gdb.  This 
would make supporting Tk much easier because you'd no longer 
have this limbo state between the Unix and Win32 
implimentations of TclTk.  The added benefit for some of us 
is that it makes porting unix Tk based apps & libraries a 
whole *hell* of a lot easier for the rest of us.  You should 
see in one of the following messages a patch to add such 
functionality.  Also of note is that the quest for Cygwin 
mkfifo is back up and running, so hopefully we'll have that 
soon.  The serial communications function that used to be 
missing in Cygwin is now complete.

As for your other question, this thread has somewhat 
summerized what needs to be done to merge his port in these 
messages [I'd reccomend reading the whole thread though]:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg00422.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg00483.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg00552.html

I'm sure if you contacted Mumit, he'd be happy to assist in 
merging the changes, as he pointed out in one of his posts.

Hopefully that will answer some of your earlier questions. 
I really hope you'll considier this.  I'd do it myself, but 
I'm somewhat over-extended at the moment (I'm sure you are 
too).  Anyhow, feel free to disagree with my evaluation...

Cheers,
Nicholas