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Re: Insight on Windows NT w/cygwin
At 03:30 PM 6/12/00 -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:03:32PM -0400, John A. Turner wrote:
> >>>>>> "CF" == Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>:
> >CF> Unfortunately, insight has always had only minimal ability to recognize
> >CF> Cygwin paths. This is due to the fact that the tcl and tk DLLs are 98%
> >CF> pure Windows and only the bare minimum support for cygwin paths
> >CF> required to search for things like init.tcl, etc.
> >
> >could someone discuss the pros and cons of using a fully cygwin-aware
> >version of tcl/tk? seems to me that's what most people using insight on
> >cygwin would want anyway
> >
> >I just know that after using a native build of XEmacs for some time, I was
> >much happier when I started using a cygwin build - seems it would be
> >similar with insight
>
>Pro: insight would be able to use all UNIX-like features of Cygwin.
>
>Con: Somebody has to do it.
Other con: People using Insight for native Windows development could get
confused.
Syd Polk spolk@redhat.com
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