On 5/23/2011 1:25 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Maybe we should be looking into introducing a way to set the CYGWIN > environment variable in the global environment and adding c:\cygwin\bin > (or whatever) to the global PATH as well.
I disagree. I deliberately keep cygwin paths out of my global PATH, so that I can switch between various separate cygwin installs, and various MinGW/MSYS installs, without them all conflicting with each other. If we DO change setup to muck with global %PATH%, then we need another checkbox to opt out. (BTW, whatever happened to that 'check box persistence' patch?) > But, I am extemely in favor of making mintty the default terminal. It > would present a much nicer end-user experience out-of-the-box even if > some pty stuff doesn't work quite right. Oh, sure, I'm not against that. I specifically said #5 was fine with me: 5) or punt. Who needs linedraw anyway. which was my way of saying: sure, go ahead and make mintty the default. If we really care about linedraw, we can fix it later -- and I wonder if we really DO care about it. It sounds like the consensus here is: we don't care /much/, but PTC... And that's fine. > And, I can just imagine the blog entries now: "Cygwin finally offers an > intelligent terminal interface - after ten years!" Yep, that + unicode support is the most obvious user-visible improvement in the 'new user experience' in a long time. Maybe even since the hallowed B19 -> B20.1 transition </cue choirs of angels>. Most of the other great improvements aren't immediately obvious to the new user... > The only downside that I see is that Andy may ask to renegotiate his > contract. I wouldn't be surprised if he asked to be paid double what > he's getting now, in fact. Andy needs a tipjar -- and a plug on this page: http://cygwin.com/donations.html -- Chuck