Re: [Texmacs-dev] preview: cygwin packages available

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Andreas Seidl wrote:
> > > I've just generated and tried out the first TeXmacs packages for Cygwin
> > > this morning. By pointing Cygwin's setup.exe to
> > >
> > >   http://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/cygwin
> >
> > Notice that I do not have access to this page...
>
> the main files needed are further down the directory:
>
>   http://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/cygwin/release/TeXmacs

I do have access to this one :^)

> But: to install the package via cygwin's setup.exe you point it to
>
>   http://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/cygwin
>
> there the file setup.bz2 resides, which is expected by the installer.

Are TeXmacs-1.0.2-1.tar.bz2 and TeXmacs-1.0.2.10-1.tar.bz2 binary packages?

> > It would be good if some other people who use cygwin could try.
> > What should they do in order to test your packages?
>
> (1) if applicable, uninstall texmacs: make uninstall
>
> (2) install cygwin and needed packages as described on texmacs.org (if you
> had texmacs running before, nothing needs to be done)
>
> (3) run setup.exe again and choose
>   http://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/cygwin
> as package mirror. Under Editors, you can choose the last stable version
> (1.0.2-1) or the newest version (1.0.2.10-1).
>
> As an official package, installation would be possible in one go: by
> selecting texmacs, all dependent packages are selected automatically.

Cool. I hope that some other Cygwin users volunteer for trying this.
Unfortunately (for this purpose :^), I do not use Windows...

As soon as I got a positive report from someone else, we should
incorporate your enhancements in the TeXmacs distribution (that is:
the setup file). Also, we should notify the Cygwin developers of
the existence of this package and ask them whether they want to
make it part of Cygwin. If not, then we can give you ftp write
access to texmacs.org and distribute the binaries from there.

Many thanks for your work in any case!!!