Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jason Rumney wrote: > >>>Ghostscript is not installed that way on w32. It is not supposed to be >>>find in the PATH. >>> >>> >> >>Why? It seems very inconvenient to require programs to find other >>programs by searching for them manually in a "registry", rather than >>using the PATH features that are built into the OS. >> >> > There are several reasons I think. One reason is that installing new > programs should not change system overall behaviour.
Then why install them in the first place? > A more important reason is that programs on w32 communicate > differently than on GNU/Linux. The w32 way, COM (or what the current > name for it is, it changes now and then), is rather similar to Corba > on a conceptual level. Programs can call other programs through COM > and get a result back. The Registry keeps track of the available COM > components. Well, PATH keeps track of the available programs. > COM is designed as interfaces with version control so it gives a > rather flexibel environment. What use is there in "interfaces with version control" in a system that does not even support different versions of DLLs to be installed at the same time? > Whatever we think of that this is the w32 way and to integrate in > the w32 environment as first class citizens this must be accepted. It is not a goal for Emacs to be a first class w32 citizen. The goal for Emacs on Windows is to be as good an Emacs as elsewhere. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
