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From: Bill Dubuque <wgd@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
To: Bob Weiner <weiner@wave.infodock.com>
Cc: Mats.Lidell@contactor.se, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Porting XEmacs to Windows NT or 95.

Win-Emacs is a native XEmacs port to MS-Windows (Win3.1, Win95, NT).
Currently its based upon XEmacs 19.6, but it will eventually be
upgraded to the latest version of XEmacs (it was implemented by
none other than Ben Wing, former XEmacs developer/maintainer ...
I'm one of the maintainers/developers).

Win-Emacs is very widely used so it can't be that bad (even at 19.6).

For further info on Win-Emacs see

http://www.pearlsoft.com/

-Bill Dubuque

: Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:16:17 -0800
: From: Bob Weiner <weiner@wave.infodock.com>
: 
: > From: Mats Lidell <Mats.Lidell@contactor.se>
: > Date: 17 Dec 1996 23:32:00 +0100
: > 
: > >>>>> "Bob" == Bob Weiner <weiner@wave.infodock.com> writes:
: > 
: > >>>>> "JT" == John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov> writes:
: >     >>>>>> "SB" == Steven L. Baur writes: "John" == John Turner
: >     >>>>>> <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov> writes:
: > 
: >     Bob> Associates <http://www.infodock.com>, could work on, either
: >     Bob> if funded directly or through support contracts for a few
: >     Bob> large sites.  My guess is that its probably on the order of a
: >     Bob> 6-month project, though of course Microsoft programmers are
: >     Bob> excellent at throwing in cruft that makes porting harder than
: >     Bob> it should be.
: > 
: > I guess you are referring to a real native port with Windows look an
: > feel? Great but ...
: 
: Yes.
: 
: > I wonder how much work it would be to port it using a local X
: > emulation package. (If that is the right name for it. I know of at
: > least one X-server product that allows clients to run locally. I even
: > tried this once but the X-server product available to me at that
: > moment was to old for my C-compiler so I gave up.)
: 
: Yes, this could be a quicker and simpler solution.  I have started
: doing background research on this and will likely go in that direction
: first.  The disadvantage is that all users will have to have the
: X server package, of course.  For corporate users, this shouldn't
: be a problem; for individual or educational users it might.

