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Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems |
Date: |
23 Nov 2001 14:37:58 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de>
>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
>> Date: 23 Nov 2001 11:58:08 +0100
>>
>> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>>
>> >> From: David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de>
>> >> Date: 22 Nov 2001 21:24:35 +0100
>> >>
>> >> From the above, BTW, I get the impression that the first thing you
>> >> should throw out, free or not, is Cygwin.
>>
Eli> Apart from Cygwin and DJGPP, there's no other comparable effort
Eli> to port GNU software to Windows, so Windows users who cannot
Eli> toss Windows have nowhere else to go.
>> We were talking just an Emacs port and I have to say I find it
>> surprising that you snipped my reference to mingw32 in order to make
>> your point. Emacs compiles with mingw32 and then should not exhibit
>> the multitude of idiosyncrasies the original poster encountered.
Eli> AFAIU, we were talking about ports of GNU software _besides_ Emacs.
Eli> Jason made his remark about a program that wouldn't work with Emacs
Eli> because that program was a Cygwin port, while Emacs wasn't.
Eli> If I misunderstood the issue at hand, I apologize for the line
Eli> noise.
Having reread the thread, I have to plead guilty to the line noise
accusation myself. Indeed the interaction between a mingw32-compiled
Emacs and Cywin utilities was the problem.
>> In short, I consider the decidedly smaller effort a good design
>> decision.
Eli> Actually, it takes more effort to produce a MinGW port than to
Eli> produce the Cygwin port.
Yes, but I like the results better. Perhaps some conversion stuff
might be automated at compilation time instead of providing a
runtime emulation package. Not being in the Windows porting business,
I don't know.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, (continued)
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/23
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, David Kastrup, 2001/11/24
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, Miles Bader, 2001/11/24
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, David Kastrup, 2001/11/24
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, Miles Bader, 2001/11/24
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, David Kastrup, 2001/11/24
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, Miles Bader, 2001/11/24
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, Miles Bader, 2001/11/24
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, David Kastrup, 2001/11/24
- Re: some emacs-21.1.1 problems, Jason Rumney, 2001/11/24