I thought about it but the point is that I cannot guarantee a continued commitment.
Understandable. How about getting whatever you have now in? My point is that we should get the ball rolling and see what will happen.
I am not really interested in having users.
But we are. The fact is that once lyx goes into cygwin, there will be a lot more users, and lyx developers will have to re-think about cygwin support.
I build it for my personal use and I share it because nobody else provides a cygwin package. I hoped that by starting it, someone else could take over from me.
Cygwin build tends to be simpler (?) to maintain than the native build, since the building process and other features are more *nix like and there is no installer to worry about. I am interested to build cygwin/lyx after my painful experience with the native build.
Currently I am dedicating far too much time to LyX than I can really afford and don't know for how long I can continue with this pace.
Actually, this is also the case for me.
IMO LyX/Cygwin is potentially better than the native version. For example, lyxclient works with it and reverse dvi search will be possible.
I agree, but native build also has its advantages. I heard somebody was talking about a unified version, but I guess that is impossible. :-)
I already have a working patch making it behaving as a native application with regards to paths, but I am having big difficulties to get it accepted.
The problem is that none of the other developers use cygwin so no one can say anything for your patch, especially when it looks intrusive.... Anyway, once my cygwin build works, at least I can test your patches.
Given that nobody is really interested in cygwin here, I fear that I will be the only one using it in my personal tree.
That is not cost-efficient. :-)
The current consensus here is that a standard Windows user hates cygwin, but I think that there are many cygwin users that are potential users of LyX/Cygwin. IMO an official LyX/Cygwin would be a success. Are you interested in getting the baton?
I am deciding what to do next with lyx. The windows side is obviously the weak part of lyx so I think I can do something with the official installer, or the cygwin one. If you can hang on and help me, can we try together? (I think Uwe's installer is good enough now, I got another positive response to that yesterday from one of my SWP friends.) Bo
