> Different idea: (almost) drop support for cygwin! > > Here is an idea I had while reading your message: we could also decide > that the cygwin version of LyX is a posix-like one, and that it can > only deal with unix-paths. This means that most special cygwin code > will go away, and that LyX/Cygwin will be basically LyX/Unix. > > People who want to interact with native windows apps will then use the > mingw (or msvc) version, which will always use windows paths. > > Does it look like an idea? I think it makes matters clearer.
I think it makes sense. Kuba