Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <009601c09f24$4324d420$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: , Cc: References: Subject: Re: How possible and how easy? Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:12:43 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Feb 2001 12:05:02.0502 (UTC) FILETIME=[2ED90460:01C09F23] There is a port of xfree86 which can be used as X-11 client libraries. The server also works, but somewhat haphazardly at the moment (It is being improved though). You might want to consider Exceed or some other commercial X-Server if you have a less than knowledgeable user base. As to how easy is easy, you won't know until you try. I can speak authoritatively for Squid, which is ~1 Mb of tar gzipped source, and required under 200 lines of alteration to work smoothly under cygwin in most circumstances. I'd like to say all, but not everyone uses squid... :] Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: How possible and how easy? > From the FAQ: > > "As a result, it is possible to easily port many significant Unix programs > without the need for extensive changes to the source code". > > I am interested in using LNKnet a public domain Pattern Classification > Software from MIT and am wondering if anyone can give me an idea as to the > amount of "non-extensive" changes a GUI tool of that nature would require to > generate a Windows executable? > > http://www.ll.mit.edu/IST/lnknet/ > > lnkNET is under consideration for a for profit collaborative project in the > field of automated trading systems. Significant contributions would qualify > for either some access to the final product or some profit sharing. > > One side interest of our project is to see if the bazaar style development > model can be extended to commercial semi-open source software and to > business building. The reason it's semi-open is because there are no more > compelling reasons to make public a profitable trading system than placing > your private credit card information under the GPL. > > Thanks for your comments, > Thierry > > --- > www.Arbitragex.net - eVentures without quitting your day job. > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple