Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/04/01/00:57:15
Hello
Thank you Larry.
Your explanations are quite comprehensive.
I have to polish my English writing as good as you have wriiten. :-)
I have gottten a lot of thing from the cygwin so I would like everyone to be happy with cygwin.
Regards
Tatsuro
--- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> > Sorry my attitude is not proper. No answer will a newbie to be disappointed.
>
> I can understand that. I should also point out that sometimes silence
> comes as a result of subject that has been discussed regularly or very
> thoroughly. In those cases, it is nice if people speak up about that but
> I mention it merely to remind posters that there is allot of useful
> information in the email archives. While it can sometimes be difficult to
> find what you're looking for, it's a great resource to try whenever a
> question or issue comes up.
>
> I'm not suggesting that the above applies to this case. It's just something
> that came to mind while reading your reply.
>
> > I have been waiting the reply like the above. I am not a specialist for the cygwin so I
> cannot answer
> > for it. I have used 'rebaseall' on my XP computers to the grace be worked by the helps here.
> (I
> > realyy appreciate that.) I felt that this was not a VISTA specific issue but I cannot answer
> it
> > because my knowledge is not enough for rebasing.
>
> Your feeling in this case was quite correct.
>
>
> Correct again. It's not a goal of this project to be a distributor of other
> project's binaries. Xming does, as you know, distribute their own X server,
> which has its own benefits and detriments when compared with Cygwin's
> offering. We certainly don't discourage people from trying Xming's X
> server or other project's software (as long as those who try it and have
> any problems or questions don't ask here ;-) ). But Cygwin won't be
> distributing this other software.
>
> Clearly there are issues with Cygwin's X package. The most troublesome ones
> all stem from the lack of a maintainer. If you've read the Cygwin-X list
> lately, you know there is someone who has expressed interest in becoming the
> maintainer here. If that does come to pass, then my guess is things will
> improve on this front. Until then, we're stuck with the status quo. So
> if anyone reading this thread would like to help move Cygwin-X into the
> 21st century, please volunteer. I expect that even if more than one
> maintainer materializes, there's plenty of work to go around. ;-)
>
> > This suggestion is really need for Vinod, I think.
>
> Definitely.
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