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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 08:04:23 -0700
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From: Jerry Asher <jerry@hollyjerry.org>
Subject: how I would like to see cygwin and the jde collaborate
Cc: Paul Kinnucan <paulk@mathworks.com>
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Paul,

Thanks for all your efforts with the JDE.  Ironically, in this age of a 
bazillion specialized IDEs, the JDE comes shining through as the one 
development environment that really excells in what I do: edit files.

I have two difficulties with the JDE that I think could be solved with 
greater collaboration between the JDE and the cygwin project, namely 
downloading all the dependencies and setting the JDE up.

One thing that's very nice about cygwin these days is the setup application 
which brings new or changed packages down and then installs them all in the 
right places.

I would love to see the cygwin setup app bring down the JDE as well as all 
the assorted elisp packages: senator, eieio, elib, semantic, speedbar, 
(anything else?)  Even now, though I use the JDE daily, I am not sure 
everything is setup correctly.  Ever since installing the JDE (and senator, 
eieio, elib, gud, ...) whenever emacs would normally flash a bell, or 
otherwise innocuously indicate an error, I instead get an emacs buffer 
filled with a stack dump of the elist that went awry.  Usable but 
obnoxious.  I look forward to the day when I can get all that setup for me 
by some automated tool.

Thank you,

Jerry Asher

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Jerry Asher                       jerry@hollyjerry.org
1678 Shattuck Avenue Suite 161    Tel: (510) 549-2980
Berkeley, CA 94709                Fax: (877) 311-8688


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