On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:14:19AM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:27:58PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > > > Am Montag, 3. April 2006 23:40 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > > > Attached a patch against the configure script that comes together with > > > Angus' SVN snapshot build for Windows (because I couldn't find the > > > original file in the SVN repository). > > > > If you want this to go in please send a diff against configure.py (1.5) > > and configure.m4 (1.4). > > > > > It adds some (Win) text editors with syntax highlighting that could be > > > used to view/edit LaTeX files. > > > > Viewers for latex are left out on purpose. I believe that more people > > would be confused by View->LaTeX than would find it useful. After all, > > you use LyX to avoid LaTeX :-) > > Of course that does not mean that windows text editors should not be > > configured, just not for LaTeX. > > I see another problem with this patch. I think that it is Windows > centric, as DraftDVI is a Windows only thing. Then, the test for > an executable file is replaced with a test for a readable file. > I think that this fact can be dangerous on *nix. > > That said, this patch would also be useful for cygwin (apart the test > for a readable file rather than an executable one, of course ;-)) > > I think that it can be done in configure.m4 after a proper test > for the system target type. I'll have a look at it if nobody beats me.
Thinking about it, I believe that this patch has not much sense if the DTL tools are not automatically built, too. -- Enrico
