Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server - getting paper size

[Lennart Borgman]

Jason Rumney wrote:

> > Ghostscript is not installed that way on w32. It is not supposed to be
> > find in the PATH.
> >    
>
> Why? It seems very inconvenient to require programs to find other
> programs by searching for them manually in a "registry", rather than
> using the PATH features that are built into the OS.
>  
There are several reasons I think. One reason is that installing new 
programs should not change system overall behaviour.

A more important reason is that programs on w32 communicate differently 
than on GNU/Linux. The w32 way, COM (or what the current name for it is, 
it changes now and then), is rather similar to Corba on a conceptual 
level. Programs can call other programs through COM and get a result 
back. The Registry keeps track of the available COM components.

COM is designed as interfaces with version control so it gives a rather 
flexibel environment.

Whatever we think of that this is the w32 way and to integrate in the 
w32 environment as first class citizens this must be accepted.