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Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition
- From: "Cary R." <cygcary at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:53:48 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition
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- Reply-to: "Cary R." <cygcary at yahoo dot com>
Yaakov,
If I'm understanding this correctly once this change has been
pushed we will be required to start an X server beforerunning
gitk. As someone who uses git and gitk all the time having to
start the X server to run gitk is a pain. I haven't checked this
recently, but in the past the X server was a bit of a resource
hog so my typical pattern is toonly start it when needed and
that's not very often.
I understand the desire to switch to X, but I think this deserves
some thought on how it will effect the general users.
Cary
----- Original Message -----
From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Subject: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition
cgf has asked me to take over tcl/tk/expect maintainership and
transition the distro from our Win32/GDI hybrid 8.4 to the *NIX/X11 8.5
currently in Ports.
<SNIP>
* git [gitg/git-gui] (Eric Blake)
new requires: tcl tcl-tk
notes: need to ditch the cygpath line with the next release
Yaakov
Cygwin/X