Re: [PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin.

From: Mark Levedahl <fastestspinner@hotmail.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2007, 16:00 UTC
Message-ID: <BAY13-F166A2E33293EA2B17FAB3CD0A50@phx.gbl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701311612420.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

The current gitk is completely broken on Windows using the current Active State Tcl/Tk release as well: the display is very similar to what is shown on cygwin. The basic problem seems to be that Tk's geometry manager is buggy, on all platforms, not just cygwin. I found many variations of the gitk layout that broke on Linux in similar ways to the breakage on cygwin on my way to creating this patch (including ones that worked on Cygwin/Windows but not on Linux). So, arguments to the effect of "get the native Tcl/Tk" or "update Cygwin's Tcl/Tk, the old one is broken" just don't hold up.

Mark Levedahl

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>From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
>To: Mike Nefari <fastestspinner@hotmail.com>
>CC: git@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin.
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:17:17 +0100 (CET)
>
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Mike Nefari wrote:
>
> > The gitk gui layout was completely broken on Cygwin.
>
>This was noted before. I tried to argue with Paulus (now Cc'ed, as per
>SubmittingPatches) that he should include it in gitk. Somehow this did not
>have the effect intended be me.
>
>I also verified that with my Tcl/Tk installation on MacOSX, a patch like
>this was needed. IIRC Paulus argued that I should get a native TclTk,
>which is supposed to work (though not with the paths on Cygwin, oh well).
>
>Oh, and it is also needed for MinGW. But I guess it will remain unfixed.
>

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