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From: Syd Polk <spolk@redhat.com>
To: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>,
	"John A. Turner" <turner@blueskystudios.com>
Cc: insight@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Insight on Windows NT w/cygwin
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000612123258.00c27180@pop.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000612153055.A6604@cygnus.com>

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
Engineering Manager	+1 415 777 9810 x 241
Red Hat, Inc.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-06-12 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-09 11:55 MWCruess
2000-06-09 17:52 ` Chris Faylor
2000-06-12 11:04   ` John A. Turner
2000-06-12 12:31     ` Chris Faylor
2000-06-12 12:32       ` Syd Polk [this message]
2000-06-12 12:36         ` Chris Faylor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-06-09 20:18 MWCruess
2000-06-08 19:58 MWCruess
2000-06-08 20:36 ` Chris Faylor

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