Re: [Texmacs-dev] Cygwin

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> > Did you get any feedback about your Cygwin package?
>
> No feedback so far. Seems the developers don't really use Windows...

Yes, that is what I fear ... or notice with joy ;^)
I think we should rather try to get feedback from ordinary users.

> I will be back in spain on 14.01., and the weekend afterwards is the first
> possible timeframe for me to do some TeXmacs-related stuff and to suggest
> the TeXmacs package at the cygwin-apps mailing list. For some nasty
> problems I will need the feedback from that list, like:
>
> The script fig2ps needs fig2dev, which is available in the transfig
> package under cygwin, which in turn requires the gostscript package, which
> leads to the wrong "gs" being used (Unknown device:  x11alpha). So a user
> has to uninstall the ghostscript package manually; or I have to hard-code
> the path to the right gs.

We can also suppress the support for .fig files in Cygwin and
let the user take care of the conversions to postscript.