<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 June 2016 at 14:43, Mojca Miklavec <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com" target="_blank">mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br></span>The cygwin binaries actually also have very little added<br>
value if you ask me; cygwin users could just as well install the other<br>
windows binaries from the shell script.) <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra">Just to comment on that aspect, personally I find the cygwin builds invaluable.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Calling native windows binaries from cygwin is of course possible but since<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">they have a different view of the filesystem paths, you always have to be aware<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">of the file system mapping and so path searching, shell escape etc would never<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">work in a natural way from a cygwin shell if using a native windows tex build, would they?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I do this all the time with calling a native windows Java application from cygwin, but<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">it's good not to have the same issues with tex.<br> <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">David<br><br></div></div>