Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 23:00:35 -0700 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Running Windows apps (newbie again) Message-ID: <20050708060035.GA3200@efn.org> References: <81cec738050707162564c2d361@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:15:42PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Rex Eastbourne wrote: > > > Hi all, > > If I already have a program, such as Emacs, that comes with Cygwin, > > should I keep my own version, or get the Cygwin version? (The shell > > doesn't recognize the 'emacs' command, but I presume I can fix that by > > changing my $PATH). Are there any other advantages to the Cygwin > > versions? > > The Cygwin versions of programs would understand Cygwin mounts and POSIX > paths, as well as signals. Other than that, the differences are likely to > be superficial (depending on the program). You left off the "and likely be slower" part. Also on the advantage side is having a cygwin package maintainer out there ready to address bugs and upgrade to newer versions for you. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/