On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:36:44AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
> > What do you mean by "official"? We do have a cygwin port for 1.6.6.1 from
> > Enrico here:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.6.1/
>
> Official means that users can use the cygwin setup tool to install
> lyx, which is much easier
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
Bo Peng wrote:
> Official means that users can use the cygwin setup tool to install
> lyx, which is much easier. It has to use cygwin/qt4 so it uses X
> instead of qt4/win32. In this sense, this version will be less useful
> than Enrico's.
So does it make sense to have your version _besides_ Enric
> 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,
> What do you mean by "official"? We do have a cygwin port for 1.6.6.1 from
> Enrico here:
>
> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.6.1/
Official means that users can use the cygwin setup tool to install
lyx, which is much easier. It has to use cygwin/qt4 so it uses X
instead of qt4/win32. In this se
(off-topic)
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> What do you mean by "official"? We do have a cygwin port for 1.6.6.1 from
> Enrico here:
>
> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.6.1/
>
I am curious: what would be the interest of using Cygwin when Windows
binaries are readily
Bo Peng wrote:
> The official cygwin port of lyx has not been updated for a long time
> (mostly due to its lack of a qt4 port). I gathered some courage and
> built a cygwin binary for lyx 1.6.6. Can someone help me upload it to
> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.6.1/cygwin? I tried but could not
>
Dear all,
The official cygwin port of lyx has not been updated for a long time
(mostly due to its lack of a qt4 port). I gathered some courage and
built a cygwin binary for lyx 1.6.6. Can someone help me upload it to
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.6.1/cygwin? I tried but could not
find a direct
