Why Xming.exe?

[David Fraser]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:04:45PM +0200, David Fraser wrote:
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>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
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>>>>In any event
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>>>Sorry.  This message obviously slipped out before I was done with it.
>>>I blame my spastic index finger.  It likes to press the "y" key.
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>>>In any event, what I was going to say above was that "In any event"
>>>it is certainly possible to craft a Cygwin/X installation which only
>>>installs a minimal number of packages.  No one has stepped forward
>>>to do this.
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>>>Many of the observations made here are fixable just by having someone
>>>step forward to do the work in Cygwin.  If no one is willing to do that,
>>>that's fine.  You can do related work elsewhere but touting MinGW
>>>programs as a solution to Cygwin problems doesn't work.
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>>OK thats fine, just a minor point: there is one Cygwin problem that
>>this solves, which is that people keep on requesting this kind of thing
>>on the cygwin-xfree mailing list :-)
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>Yes, and people keep requesting that Cygwin shouldn't be GPLed because
>it is inconvenient for them.  People ask for "su" to work correctly.
>People occasionally want to discuss Xceed here, too.
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>This isn't a "ill-informed minority gets to decide" mailing list.
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Fine, but at least we can have arguments about it :-)

>>Also its constructed from the same source code as cygwin/X so its 
>>arguably the same thing.
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>Is anyone here *at all* familiar with MinGW?  Apparently few of you are
>or you wouldn't be making arguments like this.  Much of MinGW is based
>on the same source code as what Cygwin uses.
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I use MinGW the whole time, yes, I know what it is.

>Using this logic, since Cygwin/X is based on the same source code that
>runs on many different platforms, apparently we should just shut this
>mailing list down and move everyone over to the main Xorg mailing lists.
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OK fine :-)

>>But anyway we'll happy carry on discussion on a different list
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>But not before trying to get off a few more shots, eh?
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Yes, you see I've managed to generate an extra 3 useless emails!
And without your reply I wouldn't have managed to generate this one too ...
You could actually compile Cygwin/X using cygwin GCC with the -mnocygwin 
option and that apparently would be off topic too. So I won't :-)

Don't mean to hassle you so lets leave it at that

David