On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:45:39AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > I am curious: what would be the interest of using Cygwin when Windows > > binaries are readily available? > > For Linux users (who have to use windows), cygwin provides an > integrated working environment that can be more comfortable to use. > For example, they can have a real shell with bash, subversion, grep, > vi, python, etc and use tetex instead of miktex. I guess few people > will use cygwin just for lyx, but cygwin/X users might choose > cygwin/lyx instead of win32/lyx.
Yes, I think that only who already uses cygwin is going to install the cygwin version. The others don't know what they are missing so they will make do with the native version ;-) Jokes apart, there are still several advantages in using the cygwin version: - posix compliance - lyxclient - symlinks - LyX (Qt) does not mess with the registry - scripts -- Enrico
