From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving Emacs performance on Cygwin Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:01:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4C4F1EF3.1060309@cornell.edu> References: <4C4DF756.8030604@cornell.edu> <831vapbpm7.fsf@gnu.org> <4C4EBDFE.1040007@cornell.edu> <83vd80am5h.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280253694 8719 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2010 18:01:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:01:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 27 20:01:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdoT4-0004G9-FG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:01:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37375 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OdoT3-0004Gy-R7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33366 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OdoSw-0004Ey-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdoSu-0001VG-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:01:21 -0400 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141]:42602 helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdoSu-0001V8-Dv; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.84.234.191] (markov.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.191]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id o6RI1J9O027144 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:01:19 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 In-Reply-To: <83vd80am5h.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127882 Archived-At: On 7/27/2010 1:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:07:42 -0400 >> From: Ken Brown >> Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" >> >>> Cygwin 1.5.19 is obsolete, but are you willing to make it completely >>> unsupported by Emacs? >> >> I think that's OK. There will never be another Emacs release for Cygwin >> 1.5 (which was frozen at 1.5.25), so the change will only affect people >> who are running Cygwin 1.5.19, don't want to upgrade to 1.5.25, *and* >> want to build a modern Emacs from source. This seems pretty unlikely, >> and any such person can just revert my change before building. > > They wouldn't know what to revert. > > Anyway, it's your call, but maybe post something to the Cygwin list > announcing that Emacs 23.3 and later is dropping Cygwin 1.5 support. OK, I'll do that when Emacs 23.3 is released and packaged for Cygwin. Thanks for the suggestion. BTW, it's only Cygwin 1.5.19 that's affected. People running Cygwin 1.5.20 and later should still be able to build Emacs AFAIK. Ken