On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 05:59:50PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >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.
Big ditto! Btw, Ken and Andy do you want to send me a paypal link for the donations page? If so, send it to cgf at-sign cygwin period com. I'm happy to do this for any package maintainer. cgf
