Emacs maintainer

[Ken Brown]

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