Re: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <Harold@compasstechnologies.com>
To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 6:55 AM
Subject: I love the idea, and I want to help, but. . .


> I can't even get the binaries to work.

Is there anything specifically you can't get to work? Have you looked at the
recent mailing list archives? It runs fine for me, and when libtool gets its
kinks out I'm hoping to run gnome on X on win 2000....

> I would love to help with the project, as I believe it is essential to
> transition the business world to GNU/Linux, but I need to see something
that
> works before I can see where I could help out.  So, here's a few
suggestions
> that might help generate interest in cygwin-xfree:
>
> 1) Please, update the FAQ.  I hasn't been updated since November, 1999,
and
> it appears to have no relation to the current state of the project.
> 2) Update the project home page to reflect the correct way to get the
> binaries to work.  (The home page references a deprecated version of
cygwin,
> and the documentation on the DirectX X/Server is confusing and there isn't
> much of it)
> 3) Reference the specific binary packages needed in the FAQ and on the
home
> page (currently, there are so many packages, that I can't figure out which
> ones I really need)
>
> I'm sure that you want this project to succeeded, so I think that a couple
> hours of updating the resources to attract other programmers would be very
> beneficial to the project, even more beneficial than a few hours of
> programming, as an updated web site will allow the rest of us developers
to
> jump in.
>
> Thank you for your time, and I'll be watching, and hoping for updates :)
>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com
>
>