how I would like to see cygwin and the jde collaborate

[Christopher Faylor]

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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