From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29123 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2001 20:01:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28986 invoked from network); 15 Nov 2001 20:00:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.ee.gatech.edu) (130.207.225.105) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2001 20:00:27 -0000 Received: from ece.gatech.edu (medulla.ibb.gatech.edu [128.61.133.203]) by mail.ee.gatech.edu (8.12.1/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fAFJxZmU008348; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:59:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3BF41EA5.5EEECD2F@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 08:26:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markus Hoenicka CC: Jan Nieuwenhuizen , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tetex-beta nitpicking [WAS: Re: no more package moratorium?] References: <007f01c16cde$5016de20$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <20011114124323.C24614@cygbert.vinschen.de> <15348.5126.44000.631380@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00328.txt.bz2 Markus Hoenicka wrote: > > Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > > http://lilypond.org/wiki/?TroubleshootingWindows). We currently use > > and distribute MikTeX, because it works reliable, and right out of the > > box. > > You can't even install MiKTeX unless you run the latest Windows or the > latest Internet Explorer. Are you saying MikTeX only works on WXP? WRONG. I've run MikTeX 2.1 on W98, WNT, W2K (and have no reason to assume it won't work under WMe.) Now, I'm not arguing against tetex, but let's confine the arguments to factual ones, not FUD. Are you saying MikTeX only works with IE6.0? Again, WRONG. I've used MikTeX with IE5.0, 5.5, 5.5sp1, and 5.5sp2. If you wish to keep your IE4, then you can download the appropriate DLLs that enable the setup engine separately -- details given at the MikTeX website. Again, stick to facts, not FUD. > > > But I'd much rather we could use tetex. Using MikTeX from > > cygwin is `cygpath hell'. I guess. I've never had many problems. I use MikTeX + cygwin + make all the time, and rarely have to resort to cygpath (of course, I usually build using only relative directories, so D:\\ vs. /cygdrive/d isn't really an issue for me) There are arguments in favor of tetex over MikTeX, but the "latest Windows" or "latest IE" are not among them. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/