On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Gottfried Barrow wrote:

> An issue being migrating off of teTeX, if you want to completely get off 
> of Cygwin.
>
> In Cygwin setup, it shows tetex-extra at version 3.0.0-3.
>
> At http://www.tug.org/tetex/, it says:
>
>   I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
>   more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time
>   goes by.
>
> But I have batch files and scripts to compile highlighted sections of
> LaTeX with MiKTeX. To compile LaTeX through "isabelle latex" would
> complicate things, and then Cygwin teTeX being old complicates things,
> so I stick with what's been working for me, but someday I might want
> antiquotations.

http://www.tug.org/texlive/ seems to support Cygwin directly by its own 
installer, without going through the Cygwin package management.  So it 
might be worth trying that.


> I haven't done anything to change the setup for ~~/contrib/cygwin-1.7.9.

Cygwin from 2012 poses some challenges to threads and sockets in Poly/ML, 
rendering it quite unstable for big applications.  This is why I have 
downgraded to cygwin-1.7.9 from spring 2011.

I hope to pick up this loose thread again together with David Matthews. 
It is one of the motivations to take Poly/ML on MinGW into account more 
seriously.  Another would be native x86_64 support that is still unavaible 
for Cygwin after so many years.

This might be also relevant to HOL maintainers, who want to move towards 
more serious support of Poly/ML and Windows.


        Makarius

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