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Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure


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Charles Wilson wrote:
> Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight'
> *must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI.

Tk must remain Win32GUI, or *a* Win32GUI Tk must remain, for the sake of
insight?

> It may be possible, eventually, to have both win32GUI-cygwin-runtime-tk
> and XGUI-cygwin-runtime-tk on the same machine, but nobody has
> undertaken the daunting task to make that happen.  Ditto gtk.

Others have mentioned building *NIX tcl/tk on Cygwin, and I wouldn't
call building gtk2 daunting; I'm not personally interested, as I'm
focusing on the X11 ports.

> However, I don't see the problem in assuming that GUI apps are presumed
> to be X-flavor (with the tk exception, above).  If at some point
> somebody figures out how to build a similar GUI app/toolkit in the
> opposite flavor, it can go in /opt/.

What's stopping us from moving the Win32 tcltk in /opt/win32, and making
new *NIX tcl and tk packages in /usr?  Then all that's necessary for
insight is to add /opt/win32 to PATH (either through a script,
profile.d, or manually).  Similar packages (i.e. that have both X11/*NIX
and Win32 flavors) could use /opt/win32 as well.


Yaakov
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