From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Chris Faylor Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 19:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3910E06F.45BA721B@cygnus.com> References: <20000503221805.A13179@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00143.html Message-ID: <20000503193000.zdco1tLOpXQzodwBPH6A6FejIMN9mb_1Th1GnyPWLoU@z> 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