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Re: how I would like to see cygwin and the jde collaborate
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- Subject: Re: how I would like to see cygwin and the jde collaborate
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:11:33 -0400
- References: <990712549.2624.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010524075653.00cf4990@hollyjerry.org>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:04:23AM -0700, Jerry Asher wrote:
>Paul,
>
>Thanks for all your efforts with the JDE. Ironically, in this age of a
>bazillion specialized IDEs, the JDE comes shining through as the one
>development environment that really excells in what I do: edit files.
>
>I have two difficulties with the JDE that I think could be solved with
>greater collaboration between the JDE and the cygwin project, namely
>downloading all the dependencies and setting the JDE up.
>
>One thing that's very nice about cygwin these days is the setup application
>which brings new or changed packages down and then installs them all in the
>right places.
>
>I would love to see the cygwin setup app bring down the JDE as well as all
>the assorted elisp packages: senator, eieio, elib, semantic, speedbar,
>(anything else?) Even now, though I use the JDE daily, I am not sure
>everything is setup correctly. Ever since installing the JDE (and senator,
>eieio, elib, gud, ...) whenever emacs would normally flash a bell, or
>otherwise innocuously indicate an error, I instead get an emacs buffer
>filled with a stack dump of the elist that went awry. Usable but
>obnoxious. I look forward to the day when I can get all that setup for me
>by some automated tool.
I do not plan on adding the facility for downloading non-cygwin applications
in the Cygwin setup. Sorry.
cgf
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