Vladimir Nicolici wrote:
I wonder why RedHat doesn't include this X server instead of Cygwin/X in the cygwin distribution, especially since, according to the Cygwin/X home page, the project lost its maintainer 2 years ago.
Chris has already sufficiently responded to correct your misconception about the relationship between Red Hat and Cygwin. I'll only say that your musings on why the Cygwin distribution doesn't include Xming starts with one major roadblock - we'd need a maintainer to contribute and maintain the package. I can't say whether Xming would make it through the ITP phase but if it won't have a maintainer, it would suffer the same fate as Cygwin/X right now so there's little clear value to going that route. Packages don't get into the distribution without someone willing to maintain it. Now, if you're suggesting that you would be willing to become a maintainer for an Xming package in Cygwin, then consult <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html> and send an ITP notice when you have a package available. You'd need to take into account an "upgrade path" from the current Cygwin/X package if your intent would be to replace the existing offering. Then again, maybe this turns out to be the same amount of work overall as maintaining the existing package so perhaps it would be better to just take over maintainer-ship of the current package. In any case, if you've gathered from all this that the important part of the equation here is the maintainer, I think you got the point. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/