2009/6/13 Ken Brown: > The growth actually occurred with version 22 and was discussed a couple > years ago (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-07/msg00047.html). The > main problem is that the binary itself is huge, so I don't think there's > much I can do about it. Another factor is that there used to be a separate > emacs-leim package, but that got integrated into the main emacs package > (starting with version 22). I think this was an upstream change, not a > cygwin repackaging. > > If you see something I could do, let me know and I'll try it. Do you know > if there's any linux distribution that splits things off?
Sorry, I don't actually know much about emacs, I just noticed the size increase when installing it for testing purposes. I see Debian divides emacs22 into a few separate packages, but it looks like that's mostly to factor out the platform-dependent parts, so you don't really save anything. This probably shouldn't be a great concern; you're doing great work getting Cygwin emacs up-to-date and improving the out-of-the-box experience. Andy
