Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 07:50:55 +0100 From: Jim George To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: imlib Message-Id: <20020729075055.6e9b2e85.jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020728235715.GE19054@redhat.com> References: <20020728230736.37b5fc24.jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> <20020728235601.GD19054@redhat.com> <20020728235715.GE19054@redhat.com> Organization: JSDM Services Ltd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 19:57:15 -0400 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 11:07:36PM +0100, Jim George wrote: > >>Folks, > >> > >>I wanted imlib so give me image rendering support in slypheed and > >>couldn't find it in packages, so I downloaded and compiled version > >>1.9.8.1 straight out of the box. > >> > >>The reason I tell you this is that I wasn't sure why this handy package > >>didn't appear to be on the web site? Or did I have my eyes closed? > >> > >>Should it not be an included package or at least a link on the site to > >>http://freshmeat.net/projects/imlib/?topic-id=809 ? > > > >Um, what are you expecting? If no one has ported imlib, it won't show > and contributed > >up in the package list. I don't know why this should be surprising in > >any way. We don't just arbitrarily withhold packages from the > >distribution but we certainly don't spend all of our spare time porting > >packages that are of no interest to us personally, either. > > > >However, this is off-topic for this mailing list anyway since, AFAICT, > >imlib is an X-based library. > > cgf > Chris, you are of course write on both counts sorry. Shame you couldn't have reprimanded me a little less harshly though. I will post my news to cygwin-xfree. Jim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/