Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs?

[Joe Buehler]

Ehud Karni wrote:

> AFAIK Joe Buehler is maintaining Cygwin Emacs. But may be he is not
> subscribed to address@hidden
>
> Cygwin specific Emacs problems should be discussed on address@hidden,
> not on address@hidden
>
> What are your problems ?
>
> May be you did rebasing (especially rebase all) - it is known to
> have a negative effect on Emacs.
>
> I work with both Emacs 21.2 (distributed with Cygwin, prepared by
> Joe Buehler) and Emacs 22.0.50 (updated from CVS and compiled on
> 2005-08-01), both in terminal mode and on X, and they work fine.

I am aware that there are some emacs problems with recent versions
of the Cygwin dll and looking at this is on my todo list.  Various
things like a newborn and major layoffs at my place of employment
have made it difficult to do anything at the moment.

GNU emacs under Cygwin has been stable for quite a while, so my initial
take is that the problem is undoubtedly due to a change in the Cygwin
dll.  Having spent lots and lots of hours tracking down various Cygwin
problems (mostly not emacs-port related) I am dreading having to look at
this particular problem.  But like I said, it is on my todo list.

If you want a stable emacs at the moment, the best advice I can give
is to stick to older versions of the Cygwin dll until such time as I
can fix this.  It's not a great situation, but normally one does not
have to debug the OS in order to maintain emacs!
--
Joe Buehler