Re: Improving Emacs performance on Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:07:42 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> > Cygwin 1.5.19 is obsolete, but are you willing to make it completely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.