From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3910E06F.45BA721B@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000503221805.A13179@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
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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 19:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3910E06F.45BA721B@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20000503193000.zdco1tLOpXQzodwBPH6A6FejIMN9mb_1Th1GnyPWLoU@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000503221805.A13179@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-30 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-30 6:08 cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-03 19:18 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jason Molenda
2000-05-03 19:45 ` cygwin-xfree Jason Molenda
2000-12-30 6:08 ` htdig, was cygwin-xfree Frank Ch. Eigler
2000-05-03 20:23 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2000-05-06 2:43 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-03 19:53 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Tom Tromey
2000-05-03 19:59 ` cygwin-xfree Tom Tromey
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-03 20:07 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Per Bothner
2000-05-03 23:21 ` cygwin-xfree Per Bothner
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-05-04 4:35 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Tom Tromey
2000-05-03 20:09 ` cygwin-xfree Tom Tromey
2000-12-30 6:08 ` libstdc++-v3 things that still are not working correctly Benjamin Kosnik
2000-05-03 20:14 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-05-03 22:33 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-03 20:22 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Bob Manson
2000-05-03 21:11 ` cygwin-xfree Bob Manson
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jason Molenda
2000-05-04 13:19 ` cygwin-xfree Jason Molenda
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Stan Shebs
2000-05-21 22:19 ` cygwin-xfree Stan Shebs
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Mark Galassi
2000-05-22 6:15 ` cygwin-xfree Mark Galassi
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-05-07 6:32 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-05-04 4:52 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-04 7:48 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2000-05-03 19:30 ` cygwin-xfree Andrew Cagney
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-05-03 19:47 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-03 19:34 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jeffrey A Law
2000-05-04 9:07 ` cygwin-xfree Jeffrey A Law
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