[tex-live] Installing TeXLive2008 on Cygwin

[Angelo Graziosi]

Reinhard Kotucha ha scritto:
> George N. White III writes:
> 
>  > Xetex may be more difficult simply because it uses more 3rd party libraries
>  > (fontconfig, etc.) that may not have suitable ports to Cygwin.
> 
> As Angelo said, fontconfig is already supported (version 2.4.1). I
> hope it's not too old.

Confirmed! 2.4.1 is the current version in Cygwin.

> 
> Last night I downloaded Cygwin in order to burn it on a DVD and update
> my system at work.  There are two trees, "release" and "release-2".
> The latter one is not mentioned in the documentation at all but I
> suppose that it's something what Debian people call "testing" or
> "unstable".  Can anyone confirm?

You should not use the release-2 area: it is only for Cygwin maintainers
and contains the next 1.7 version of Cygwin. (Perhaps it will be
released before the end of 2008 ant it is very unstable.)


Cheers,
    Angelo.