From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:17:46 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <7263-Wed27Nov2002204304+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200212021613.gB2GDxs02206@rum.cs.yale.edu> <9003-Mon02Dec2002211831+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038925479 27172 80.91.224.249 (3 Dec 2002 14:24:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JDyY-000745-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:24:38 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18JE85-0002SG-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:34:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JDzw-0003ot-00; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:26:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JDzX-0003cn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JDzW-0003cM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JDzV-0003cI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:25:37 -0500 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JDuS-0006nI-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:20:24 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JDpd-0006Wm-00 for ; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:15:25 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.47.34.2 Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038924925 24308 64.47.34.2 (3 Dec 2002 14:15:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:15:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9826 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9826 Jason Rumney wrote: > My impression is that many of the misfeatures might be considered > features by those who would use the Cygwin port. Mostly they don't > want to interact with Windows programs in the Windows way. So it may > not be as much of a work in progress as it might seem. As I wrote in another post just posted, this port is offered as part of the official Cygwin application repository, and a number of people are using it without any problems. Cygwin is installed nowadays via a setup.exe program that lets you select which applications you want to install, and emacs 21.2 is one of them. Joe Buehler