Why Xming.exe?

[David Fraser]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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>>On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:02:53PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, ?yvind Harboe wrote:
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>>>>* There are two many options and questions with CygWin.  I imagine that
>>>>Xming.exe can come with a ~"zero questions" installer.
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>>>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.
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>>Er, I guess it's time I stepped in, then.
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>>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.
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>>This *has* come up before and I think I'm being pretty consistent here.
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>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.
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Alexander, I'd love to be kept informed of developments so I think it 
would be great if this could be done on a mailing list ... I'm sure the 
majority of cygwin-xfree subscribers wouldn't mind a bit of discussion 
here until a new home is found ...

David