Re: Why Xming.exe?

[David Fraser <davidf at sjsoft dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:04:45PM +0200, David Fraser wrote:
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> > Christopher Faylor wrote:
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> > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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> > >      
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> > > > In any event
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> > > Sorry.  This message obviously slipped out before I was done with it.
> > > I blame my spastic index finger.  It likes to press the "y" key.
> > >
> > > In any event, what I was going to say above was that "In any event"
> > > it is certainly possible to craft a Cygwin/X installation which only
> > > installs a minimal number of packages.  No one has stepped forward
> > > to do this.
> > >
> > > Many of the observations made here are fixable just by having someone
> > > step forward to do the work in Cygwin.  If no one is willing to do that,
> > > that's fine.  You can do related work elsewhere but touting MinGW
> > > programs as a solution to Cygwin problems doesn't work.
> > >      
> > OK thats fine, just a minor point: there is one Cygwin problem that
> > this solves, which is that people keep on requesting this kind of thing
> > on the cygwin-xfree mailing list :-)
> >    
> Yes, and people keep requesting that Cygwin shouldn't be GPLed because
> it is inconvenient for them.  People ask for "su" to work correctly.
> People occasionally want to discuss Xceed here, too.
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> This isn't a "ill-informed minority gets to decide" mailing list.
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Fine, but at least we can have arguments about it :-)

> > Also its constructed from the same source code as cygwin/X so its 
> > arguably the same thing.
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> Is anyone here *at all* familiar with MinGW?  Apparently few of you are
> or you wouldn't be making arguments like this.  Much of MinGW is based
> on the same source code as what Cygwin uses.
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I use MinGW the whole time, yes, I know what it is.

> Using this logic, since Cygwin/X is based on the same source code that
> runs on many different platforms, apparently we should just shut this
> mailing list down and move everyone over to the main Xorg mailing lists.
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OK fine :-)

> > But anyway we'll happy carry on discussion on a different list
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> But not before trying to get off a few more shots, eh?
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Yes, you see I've managed to generate an extra 3 useless emails!
And without your reply I wouldn't have managed to generate this one too ...
You could actually compile Cygwin/X using cygwin GCC with the -mnocygwin 
option and that apparently would be off topic too. So I won't :-)

Don't mean to hassle you so lets leave it at that

David