On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:15:42PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Rex Eastbourne wrote: > > > Hi all, > > If I already have a program, such as Emacs, that comes with Cygwin, > > should I keep my own version, or get the Cygwin version? (The shell > > doesn't recognize the 'emacs' command, but I presume I can fix that by > > changing my $PATH). Are there any other advantages to the Cygwin > > versions? > > The Cygwin versions of programs would understand Cygwin mounts and POSIX > paths, as well as signals. Other than that, the differences are likely to > be superficial (depending on the program).
You left off the "and likely be slower" part. Also on the advantage side is having a cygwin package maintainer out there ready to address bugs and upgrade to newer versions for you. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
