From: cgw AT pgt DOT com (Charles G Waldman) Subject: RE: CD-based distribution (was Another website....) 16 Aug 1998 07:33:29 -0700 Message-ID: <13780.13461.228133.241922.cygnus.gnu-win32@sirius> References: <01J0LGHSWMKI000F1G AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robert DOT Cross AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk Cc: cgw AT pgt DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Robert DOT Cross AT scottish-newcastle DOT co DOT uk writes: > Why bother with XEmacs then, when NTEmacs is available and just as good? But, NTEmacs is *not* "just as good". (I've used both XEmacs and NTEmacs extensively, and have been helping out a little with the XEmacs beta testing.) XEmacs can be built for Windows in two different ways[1] - there's a Cygwin version, and a native version. They function pretty much the same. (There are some problems with subprocesses in the native version, but these are being worked on). You could install one, or the other. But it would be madness to install *both*. Keeping both distributions up to date would be a major pain. > Some tools I have don't translate well to Win32, and require other programs, > like Ghostscript, to function, hence provide these other programs. Cygwin is great for things that don't translate to Win32 - I think the idea of a Cygwin GIMP is great. I'm talking about tools (Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python) for which well-functioning native Win32 ports are readily available. Footnotes: [1] As of version 21.0, currently in beta. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".