Ed Mooney writes: > Now I'm confused. Is the version of emacs[1] you can install by running > http://cygwin.com/setup.exe "A" or "B"? I had thought it was "A". If > not, where can I get "A"?
Hi Ed, I thought A was still available. My knowledge is very hazy on cygwin as my own dealings with it were only to test out changes to the JDEE intended to support it. Perhaps B replaced A. Anyway, I believe A was developed before Cygwin supported X Windows and thus included source changes to use the native Windows GUI. I believe B was made possible by the porting of X Windows to Cygwin. This enables Cygwin to support a binary compiled directly from the Unix sources for Emacs, without any Windows-specific modifications. I don't know if the JDEE takes advantage of any A modifications that are missing from the B version. It would help if anyone can shed any light on this question as this would enable me to determine how much work would be needed to enhance the JDEE to support the B version. Paul > > -- Ed > > [1] E.g.: http://mirrors.rcn.net/pub/sourceware/cygwin/release/emacs/ > > Jason Rumney wrote: > > Paul Kinnucan wrote: > > > >> Hi Felix, > >> > >> As I understand it, there are two versions of "cygwin emacs": > >> > >> (A) a version of Unix Emacs modified specifically to run in the > >> Cygwin environment and > >> (B) the standard Unix version of Emacs compiled, using cygwin > >> gcc, to run in the Cygwin environment > >> > >> > >> JDEE supports the A version. It does not support the B > >> version. The reason for this is that years ago, long > >> before the B-version existed, some JDEE users asked for A > >> version support and some of those users actually contributed > >> code necessary to support the A version. Meanwhile, until > >> now, there has been no demand for B-version support. > >> > >> > > Really this is a cygwin problem. A cygwin version of Emacs needs to be > > modified to fit its environment, as the 'A' version was. I'm not sure > > what happened to those patches, but it is unreasonable of the Cygwin > > maintainers to expect the maintainers of every other package to make > > changes to accomodate Cygwin's lack of fitting in with its environment > > so that they themselves can use unmodified code targetted at GNU/Linux. > > > > >
