Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs on Cygwin

[david]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:36:18PM +0100, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> 
> It would be great if David could charter a Windows computer
> at Rennes and try to provide some support for Cygwin when
> TeXmacs 1.0.1 will be released. Indeed, I would like to mention
> that we now support Cygwin, but the following additional work
> has to be done:
> 
> 1) Complete the web page http://www.texmacs.org/Download/Cygwin.html
[...]

That would be good indeed. Automatic detection of g++-2 would make
this simpler though.

> 
> 2) Make a binary distribution of TeXmacs on cygwin. The idea is to
[...]

I do not quite agree, because TeXmacs has dependences on external
tools (gs-x11, netbpm, wget, etc.) which are generally installed on
linux distribution but not on Cygwin systems (which tend to be very
minimalist).

A better solution would be a cygwin package. Maybe we can provide one
without being integrated in the cygwin distribution.

> 3) Make a binary distribution with Cygwin and TeXmacs and
>    possibly other interesting software, like all supported
>    free computer algebra systems.

That would also be a good idea.

> I appreciate it if David started to work on this tomorrow,

Sorry, but I will probably not have the time tomorrow. I am not sure I
could get immediate access to a Windows machine. And when I get back
my priority should be the work on Macaulay2.


PS: I out for 8 days starting tomorrow evening.

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