X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <20080401055621.620.qmail@web3304.mail.ogk.yahoo.co.jp> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:56:21 +0900 (JST) From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA Reply-To: matsuoka AT nuce DOT nagoya-u DOT ac DOT jp Subject: Re: Cygwin problems under Vista (please reply to Vinod) To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com, vinod AT Princeton DOT EDU Cc: matsuoka AT nuce DOT nagoya-u DOT ac DOT jp In-Reply-To: <47F1AFB5.5070509@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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)" 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. -------------------------------------- Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/