RE: GNUstep/Windoze [ was RE: I'm confused ]

[Bissell, Tim]

> > Forgive me for spouting on a subject I know very little about, but
> > I seem to remember that there is a port of XFree86 (the X server)
> > to Cygwin + Windoze.  Wouldn't attempting to port GNUstep to
> > X on windoze rather than to the native APIs lower the bar somewhat?
> 
> I know very little about it, but I think that XFree86 on Windows runs
> inside a separate window, so you can't really have your  gnustep apps
there
> interact `natively' with the stuff around.  But I'm not sure anyway I
> suppose yes, it would be much easier.

Aha, good point - I guess I am too used to using eXceed, which has a
rootless
mode which works quite well, except for cut-n-paste.  Still, perhaps
GNUStep/cygwin compiled against XFree86/cygwin running on Windoze/eXceed
might
give the original enquirer what he needs...

regards,

tim


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