Re: [Texmacs-dev] native and GPL port of QT to win32

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Hi Dan,

> My name is Dan Martens, I am the developer that is currently porting
> texmacs to windows. Just to reassure you, the way that we are currently
> undertaking this project is by far the least damaging to the current
> texmacs code.  Very little code has been changed, and what has been
> changed is merely syntax, or file system pathing.  There section
> involvind texmacs forking and piping a child STDIN, STDOUT had to be
> changed considerably due to the inherent differences between Windows and
> Unix regarding processes.  We are instead rewriting all the underlying
> system calls that texmacs makes, including X11 calls.  It will not be a
> full rewrite of X, but just the necessary functions to get it working.
> So far, so good.  We have the startings of a window up, which is
> excellent news.  All other aspects of the program, including GUILE, and
> TEX interfacing are working so far.   

Thank you for this good news. I apologize for not having had time recently
to make TeXmacs significantly more portable. In any case, we will be happy
to test your port as soon as things start to work.

Best wishes, Joris