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Re: Why Xming.exe?
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:02:53PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> >On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, ?yvind Harboe wrote:
> >>* There are two many options and questions with CygWin. I imagine that
> >>Xming.exe can come with a ~"zero questions" installer.
> >
> >This is the main reason. There is still some work to do but I plan on
> >having all defaults in Xming depend on the installation dir of Xming.
>
> Er, I guess it's time I stepped in, then.
>
> Since the name of this mailing list is "cygwin-xfree" and the site you
> are using is cygwin.com, I would not expect too much traffic here
> regarding non-cygwin solutions.
>
> This *has* come up before and I think I'm being pretty consistent here.
Yes, this is right. If the port evolves and is more usable I'll search a new
home for it (most likely freedesktop.org). Currently only Øyvind and I were
discussing things and this can be easily done by personal mail.
> Alexander, if you are going to be devoting a lot of time to this project
> from now on do we need to find a Cygwin/X maintainer?
My #1 priority i clearly Cygwin/X. The mingw port is just a sideeffect of the
development for Cygwin/X.
bye
ago
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