Why Xming.exe?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:38:51AM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:02:53PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>> >On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, ?yvind Harboe wrote:
>> >>* There are two many options and questions with CygWin.  I imagine that
>> >>Xming.exe can come with a ~"zero questions" installer.
>> >
>> >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.
>> 
>> Er, I guess it's time I stepped in, then.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> This *has* come up before and I think I'm being pretty consistent here.
>
>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 ?yvind and I were 
>discussing things and this can be easily done by personal mail.
>
>> Alexander, if you are going to be devoting a lot of time to this project
>> from now on do we need to find a Cygwin/X maintainer?  
>
>My #1 priority i clearly Cygwin/X. The mingw port is just a sideeffect of the
>development for Cygwin/X. 

Thank you for clarifying and, especially, thank you for taking my email
in the spirit in which it was intended.

cgf