XWin design suggestion

Ralf Habacker Ralf.Habacker@freenet.de
Tue May 6 20:55:00 GMT 2003


> Sylvain,
>
> Because, as I have reiterated over and over, XWin.exe is a Windows
> application, not a Cygwin application.
>
> As an aside, one of my goals is to have a stand-alone version of
> XWin.exe, building off of Suhaib's work, that does not depend upon
> Cygwin at all.  It will mostly be a proof of concept, but it would also
> be cool if X.org accepted the code into their sample implementation.
> Granted, it wouldn't have all of the libraries and programs, but it
> would be an X Server that ran on Windows.

A small note fot this goal: I've got very good experience with the inno setup
compiler packaging the kde-cygwin 3.1.1 releases, maybe this would be good for a
standalone distribution too.  See http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php for more
informations.

Cheers
Ralf




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