Re: cygwin-xfree

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

Chris Faylor wrote:
> 
> I have recently offered CVS space to the the guy who has been working on
> the port of XFree86 to Cygwin.
> 
> I thought he wanted it to upload the source code for a few drivers.
> 
> It turns out that he wants to upload pretty much all of the XFree86
> source code since there were, apparently, a number of changes required
> for Cygwin.
> 
> So, two question:
> 
> 1) What does everyone think about adding another 150MB to the server.  There
>    seems to be more than adequate disk space available for this but 150MB
>    is still a pretty massive project.  I can just imagine what will happen
>    to sourceware the first time someone checks this out.
> 
> 2) I assume that if you all think that 1) is no problem then this directory
>    should be winsup/xfree.  The winsup directory is not being mirrored by
>    any of the CVS mirrors, right?
> 
> I'm have mixed feelings about this.  If we can't provide this, the developer
> will go to Source Forge.  Maybe that's the best thing.  He's already split
> the development that had started for cygwin so that there is just a generic
> msvc/mingw version of everything as well as a cygwin-specific branch.  It
> would probably be not too much work to set up on Source Forge and maybe
> it would even give Cygwin a little publicity.

Where is the public xfree86 CVS repository? Hmm:

http://www.xfree86.org/developer.html
> To become an XFree86 developer you first need to join The XFree86
> Project as a non-voting member. Access to the XFree86 development
> code is only available to project members, and being a member provides
> the necessary legal status to allow developers to access information
> available to the project from other sources. 

there isn't one.

	Andrew