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

[Robert Collins]

Suhaib,
    I'm happy to do help out with the web end of it if that would help you.
I've never dug into the X source... and I too have little time (which is why
I'm not offering coding help).

Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>; "Cygx (E-mail)"
<cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 9:01 AM
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
> > >
> > >
>
>