RE: seperate xfree project on sourceforge

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I never heard anything about it?  I do not understand why a separate project
is needed?  Due to GPL requirements of Cygwin, your download site wont be
small.  You will need to host all the source codes.  My advice is join the
developers list at xgree86.cygwin.com and contribute directly to this
project.  Forking projects does more harm then good.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 1:37 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: seperate xfree project on sourceforge
> 
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:58:13PM +1100, Matthew Donald wrote:
> >I'm in the process of setting up winfree86.
> >
> >Winfree86 is a minimal version of Cygwin + xfree86 + other code to
> provide
> >an x-server for Windows.  It removes the requirement to install a
> full
> >version of Cygwin.  Also it pretties up the interface (removes the
> batch
> >window, integrates the config more closely into Windows)
> 
> That is no longer a requirement with cygwin's new version of
> setup.exe.
> 
> We routinely ask for volunteers in the cygwin project and I'm sure
> that
> the Cygwin XFree86 project would not turn help away.
> 
> Why start up a separate effort?
> 
> Did you have great ideas for cygwin's setup or for XFree86 that were
> brutally shot down?  Or, did you decide that the only way to get
> things
> done was to essentially fork both projects?
> 
> cgf