Re: fpTeX and Cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:48:35AM -0800, Lothan wrote:
> > From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 12:54 AM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: fpTeX and Cygwin
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:31:11AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > > Jochen Küpper wrote:
> > > > - Are there teTeX-binaries for Cygwin available?
> > >
> > > As far as I know, unfortunately NOT !
> >
> > Somebody wants to step in here? I'm fairly sure that a Tex/Latex
> > package would perfectly match into the cygwin/contrib directory.
> > The contributor should only be willing to maintain the package for
> > a while.
> >
> > Corinna
> 
> For what it's worth, I'm using MiKTeX, which is a very capable and
> full-featured TeX package. It's available at http://www.miktex.org/ (a link
> at the top of the page goes to the repository at sourceforge.net). It is a
> native Win32 package and I'm using it from within a bash shell to generate
> my info files and paper manuals.

Yeah, I know. However, I have a dream (yes, really). What if Cygwin
will become a distribution as big and filled with useful stuff as a
Linux distro? Wouldn't that be nice? You know, it's no problem to
compile tcsh for Cygwin. But as long as it wasn't part of the standard
distro many people ask for it and many people are not able to compile
their own stuff just as I have no clue of, say, Powerpoint.

<whining>
The Cygwin "team" consists of only two and a half persons, Chris, me and
a half DJ. We are definitely unable to provide such a big distro _and_
care for all the packages in it. We are dependent of contributors.
Please help us to get a really nice and useful Cygwin distro.
</whining>

By the way I want to thank all contributors. What, for example, would
we do without Chucks ncurses or Michaels vim package, just to name two
here?

Corinna

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