Windvi was the outcome of an exercise to port the Unix-based Xdvi for use under Win32, for the fpTeX system. As it turned out, the exercise turned into far more than just a port, as X Windows is far from Win32; all the user interface and the graphical part was rewritten.

The author of fpTeX has now switched his attentions to development of the XEmTeX system, and fpTeX (and windvi with it) is no longer being developed.

The author is Fabrice Popineau.