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RE: XWin design suggestion
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 22:54:54 +0200
- Subject: RE: XWin design suggestion
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> Sylvain,
>
> Because, as I have reiterated over and over, XWin.exe is a Windows
> application, not a Cygwin application.
>
> As an aside, one of my goals is to have a stand-alone version of
> XWin.exe, building off of Suhaib's work, that does not depend upon
> Cygwin at all. It will mostly be a proof of concept, but it would also
> be cool if X.org accepted the code into their sample implementation.
> Granted, it wouldn't have all of the libraries and programs, but it
> would be an X Server that ran on Windows.
A small note fot this goal: I've got very good experience with the inno setup
compiler packaging the kde-cygwin 3.1.1 releases, maybe this would be good for a
standalone distribution too. See http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php for more
informations.
Cheers
Ralf