On Oct 9 23:13, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:45:01PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > >[Redirecting from cygwin to cygwin-apps.] > >On 10/9/2012 10:19 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > >> [...] > >> When we release Emacs 24.3 packages for Cygwin, would it be possible > >> to add a package for users who want to use cygw32 Emacs? > > > >It would be easy enough for me to do, assuming it builds without a > >problem. But I have a couple of qualms about it: > > > >1. This strikes me as going against the spirit of Cygwin, which tries to > >emulate Linux. Why shouldn't users who want a GUI version of emacs just > >use emacs-X11, as they would on Linux? We don't provide Win32 versions > >of other X11 programs as far as I know. > > > >2. Because there is so much Windows-specific code in it, I wouldn't feel > >competent to support it if users have problems. I'm not at all familiar > >with that kind of programming. > > > >I'd like to hear what others think, especially cgf and Corinna. > > I had similar mild concerns about the "un-Cygwinness" of it. But, we do have > other packages like mintty which have specific Windows code in them and, even > the X package has to have Windows code. > > So, I'd leave the decision entirely up to your competent hands. I'm > amazed that you do such a good job supporting such a complicated package > already so I'd expect that you could pick up the Windows stuff > eventually. The only question is really if you want to take on the > added support costs. > > Maybe you could release it as a test package and see just how much bother > it could be? > > Otherwise, I could say ABSOLUTELY NOT and you could blame me. :-)
Not much more to say. As an additional datapoint I'd like to point out that Volker's XEmacs package also already comes with a Win32 GUI, which is used by default if DISPLAY isn't set. If a package has to choose (for technical reasons) between an X GUI and a W32 GUI, I'd prefer the X GUI. If both GUIs are possible in parallel, it's the maintainer's call. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
