RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

This thread is dead.  However, let me explain last time.
Xfree86 owns nothing but hw/xfree86.  Rest of the libraries come
from other sources.  Once we know there is a project and someone comes an
puls zlib from gzip and stick somewhere, other guy coms in and take xpm and
stick else where... third one comes and downlaod freetype and stick
elsewhere... fourth one comes and downlaod another fonts library and stick
into somwhere... all knows that there is aproject which depends upon Cygwin
and use these libraries... is not that forking or a fun to compile dlls for
fun? Ultimately creating a headache for others...

Anyway, if libfreetype and a fwe others starts appearing in contrib
directory i will just take off instead of dealing with forking of dlls 

Suhaib

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Sent: 5/3/2001 6:25 PM
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22

I recalled a comment somewhere. Oh well.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 7:57 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 22
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:45:08PM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >I think it is ok to cygz.dll.  This argument will not bring much,
> >but I do say it was a bad idea to fork libz.dll from X 
> source last year
> >and stick into contrib.  
> 
> I don't know why you are thinking that this came from X.  You 
> could also
> claim that it came from Java or the Cygwin setup program.  
> Both of those
> use zlib.  Neither of those is the owner or originator of the code.
> 
> cgf
>