The libXpm-noX packages provide a version of the Xpm image format
library compiled to NOT require the use of an X server. These packages
are the successors to the old xpm-nox package (which now contains only
the old DLL, for compatibility purposes).
See the related announcement
Updated: xpm-nox-4.2.0-6
Changes (from xpm-nox-4.2.0-5)
--------------------
o rename the entire project from 'xpm-nox' to 'libXpm-noX'
o switch to cygport build framework
+ Note: 'cygport libXpm-noX-3.5.6 get' requires git, which is
not part of the official cygwin distribution. However, a regular
build (prep, build, install, pkg) will work fine without git.
o split into three packages: DLL, devel, apps & docs
o update to latest version of the library from the
modular x.org repository
What is "libXpm-noX-3.5.6"? I thought the most recent xpm was 3.4k.
Or, your last several releases of xpm-nox have had version numbers like
4.2.0 or 4.3.0. Where'd you get 3.5.6?
In the 'modularization' work undertaken by the x.org team,
all X libraries (including xpm) were modified so that they
would build using traditional GNU build tools: autoconf,
automake, libtool. This effort was finalized with the release
of X11R7.0 in December 2005. However, each individual library
has its own (new) version number -- because the idea is that
modular libraries may be released on a rolling schedule, and
not all-at-once like the monolithic (pre-7.0) X11.
So, the most recent version of libXpm from the x.org modular
tree is 3.5.6. Clear?
This is also the reason I renamed the entire package set from "xpm-nox"
to "libXpm-noX" -- I figured it would inevitably lead to problems if I
tried to force setup.exe to always replace 4.whatever with the "newer"
3.whatever.
--
Charles Wilson
libXpm-noX volunteer maintainer for cygwin
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