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Re: Emacs maintainer


On 5/13/2009 3:42 PM, Mark Harig wrote:
Ken Brown wrote:
On 4/23/2009 1:36 PM, Ken Brown wrote:

Steffen? Ping?

There's been some discussion of the emacs-23 packages on the main cygwin list today (see the thread starting at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00368.html). I really think these should be uploaded as test packages so more people can try them out.

Ken

Perhaps there should be two experimental versions of Emacs made available in the 'Exp' group in setup:
- Emacs 22.3 (the latest release version of Emacs)
- Emacs 23.0 (currently in pre-release testing)


If version 22.3 is found to have resolved the problems that were found in version 22.1 (on Cygwin),
then 22.3 could be moved to the 'Curr' group in setup as an alternative to version 21.2-13.

The problems with version 22.1 had nothing to do with 22.1 vs. 22.3. The issue was that, starting with emacs-22, cygwin builds of emacs with gcc-3 were unstable. Once gcc-4 became available, it was easy to build emacs-22 (and now emacs-23) for cygwin. I've been using my own builds for a long time, in both cygwin 1.5 and 1.7. What's been holding things up is that Steffen has been unable to use cygport (possibly because of BLODA problems). So I offered to help.


emacs-23.1 is probably going to be released fairly soon, probably before cygwin-1.7. Since cygwin-1.7 is still in beta testing anyway, I think it would be a waste of time to fool around with emacs-22.

Ken


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