Hi,
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Bertalan Fodor wrote:
> I also was thinking about something like this. There could be a server
> in colinux, which could work with a network connection, sending messages
> and files. If it is much faster than running lilypond in cygwin, it
> would worth creating it.
IIRC coLinux only works on W2K and WXP, not on 95-ME. Another option would
be MinGW32. In contrast to cygwin, MinGW32 does not provide a complete
POSIX interface (no fork()...), and therefore is much faster starting up.
AFAIK the main problem regarding speed was that the bash initializes a few
things the POSIX way, which gets terribly slow on 95-ME, and to a certain
extent also on NT-XP.
Another advantage is that we don't have to care about cygwin
installation, but can distribute the whole package in one .zip together
with jEdit and java and lilypond and ghostscript.
To my knowledge, the only reason to choose cygwin over MinGW32 was TeX,
which works best with a complete Unix like environment. Having said this,
there exists a good alternative to cygwin's TeX on Windows: MiKTeX.
However, I only heard good things about it, never tried it.
Of course, the easiest method would be to just disable the TeX backend
(which is the default anyway). From the CVS logs I remember that in the
last days, work was done to support point-and-click with the PDF backend
via pseudo hypertext links. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time yet
to investigate more (would be nice to ask ghostscript to give a list of
links together with their hot spots on the page, and I'm sure this is
possible), because I am still writing away like crazy on my PhD.
Ciao,
Dscho
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