Re: Cygwin, ptys, porting Quint to Windows

[Christoph Ellenberger]

I can't remember the proper thread (e.g. 
https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2011-April/023553.html),
 but wasn't Michael Goffioul working on tweaking the console2 into Qt ? It came 
up when discussing to integrate the QtermWidget (John Swenson) into Quint. 
Console2 as I understand would mimic a ptys behaviour 
(http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/OT-Console-pty-on-Windows-td1167347.html) ^

kind regards
christoph

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:10:55 +0200
> Von: Marco Atzeri <address@hidden>
> An: address@hidden
> Betreff: Re: Cygwin, ptys, porting Quint to Windows

> On 14/07/2011 3.56, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > How can we make Quint work on Windows? Pedro Lucas, QtOctave's
> > ex-maintainer, glanced over the Quint and rightfully noticed that it's
> > not going to work on Windows because it's using ptys to do terminal
> > emulation. I heard that cygwin can provide a compatibility layer that
> > will let us use ptys on Windows and will not require a substantial
> > rewrite of the terminal emulation code. Does anyone know more about
> > this? Can it be done transparently for Windows users who download the
> > binary?
> >
> > TIA,
> > - Jordi G. H.
> cygwin is a unix-like layer and have ptys, so in theory it is feasible, 
> but I have not yet tried
> to build it.
> 
> Windows is another matter and we can not reuse the cygwin approuch.

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