New Project (was RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?)

[David Fraser]

Sorry everyone, posted to wrong list! Yikes!

David Fraser wrote:

> This is a notice to everyone on this list that we will (for a short 
> time at least) be using this list to discuss a new project intended to 
> allow ordinary Windows programs to appear in X-Windows. This is quite 
> different to the original purpose of this list, but was suggested on a 
> discussion on the cygwin-xfree list where it was felt that this was 
> appropriate as the win32-x11 project is no longer being actively 
> developed. See the cygwin-xfree archives over the last few days for 
> more info (and the suggestion in Christopher Faylor's message below)
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-09/)
>
> David Fraser
>
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Actually, if you want an existing mailing list to discuss this on, you
>> can use win32-x11@sources.redhat.com.  That was Suhaib's list but he's
>> indicated that he's had to move on and the project is basically dead.
>> The name even makes a certain amount of sense.
>>
>> You can use that for the discussion until an actual project name is
>> chosen.  At that point, I'm happy to set up what is required on
>> sources.redhat.com.
>>
>> Don't let my pessimism (or Harold's) stop you if you are fired up about
>> this but please be aware that this will require substantial work,
>> probably by more than one person.  You'll probably need a project lead,
>> too, if you want this to succeed.
>>
>> cgf
>>
>>  
>>
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