RE: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Web pages update had been taken care.  Robert volunteer to take over
the web pages update.

Beside, if you do not post your specific questions, I will not know
what are your problems.

To get Cygwin/XFree on Windows NT/2000 up and running, all it takes
Cygwin 1.1.4, binaries from xc-4-binaries directory from FTP server
install them in /usr/X11R6 and use startxwin.bat to write your own ENV
script to start
X.

To contribute code and patches, you can access the latest code from
http://www.xfree86.org CVS repository.

You can get mxterm (MOTIF Xterm), and XFCE3 Desktop from
contrib directory.  All the executables go into /usr/X11R6/bin.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Harold Hunt
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .
>
>
> Suhaib,
>
> I understand that you are busy with other things, that's why I
> think that it
> would be wise to spend you next few project hours ensuring that it is easy
> for others to begin contributing to the project. . .
>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suhaib Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 6:01 PM
> To: Robert Collins; Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .
>
>
> Well the problem is I am the only one doing it.  I got a lot of
> respobsibilities at
> my real WORK place.  These kind of projects are usually beyond one person
> ability to manage.
> Beside I cannot sit on PC all weekends every weekend, I need to have life
> to, and spend time
> with family members....
>
> Suhaib
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert
> > Collins
> > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 5:58 PM
> > To: Cygx (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
> > To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 6:55 AM
> > Subject: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .
> >
> >
> > > I can't even get the binaries to work.
> >
> > Is there anything specifically you can't get to work? Have you
> > looked at the
> > recent mailing list archives? It runs fine for me, and when
> > libtool gets its
> > kinks out I'm hoping to run gnome on X on win 2000....
> >
> > > I would love to help with the project, as I believe it is essential to
> > > transition the business world to GNU/Linux, but I need to see
> something
> > that
> > > works before I can see where I could help out.  So, here's a few
> > suggestions
> > > that might help generate interest in cygwin-xfree:
> > >
> > > 1) Please, update the FAQ.  I hasn't been updated since
> November, 1999,
> > and
> > > it appears to have no relation to the current state of the project.
> > > 2) Update the project home page to reflect the correct way to get the
> > > binaries to work.  (The home page references a deprecated version of
> > cygwin,
> > > and the documentation on the DirectX X/Server is confusing and
> > there isn't
> > > much of it)
> > > 3) Reference the specific binary packages needed in the FAQ and on the
> > home
> > > page (currently, there are so many packages, that I can't
> > figure out which
> > > ones I really need)
> > >
> > > I'm sure that you want this project to succeeded, so I think
> > that a couple
> > > hours of updating the resources to attract other programmers
> > would be very
> > > beneficial to the project, even more beneficial than a few hours of
> > > programming, as an updated web site will allow the rest of us
> developers
> > to
> > > jump in.
> > >
> > > Thank you for your time, and I'll be watching, and hoping for
> updates :)
> > >
> > > Harold L Hunt II
> > > Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> > > Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
> > >
> > >