On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 05:53:08PM +0200, Konrad Hofbauer wrote: > Enrico, > > just out of curiosity, and an honest question: > > Why would one want to build/run LyX in Cygwin, if there is a (well, two > ...) native windows version ?
First of all, because I already use cygwin (I only use cygwin, maybe :) on windows and I want to be able to use posix paths and symbolic links. Secondly, I find very useful the reverse DVI search feature, which is not available in the native versions. Thirdly, there are a number of applications I use that are only available through cygwin, and a cygwin version of lyx interacts better with them. But I think that you are right. If one doesn't already use cygwin, there's no point in not using the native versions. -- Enrico
