From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 34572 invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2016 16:10:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 34519 invoked by uid 89); 29 Aug 2016 16:10:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sake, H*Ad:D*cornell.edu, H*MI:sk:announc, risk X-HELO: limerock03.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock03.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.243) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:10:00 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id u7TG9wCT030282 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:09:58 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.9] (mta-68-175-148-36.twcny.rr.com [68.175.148.36] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id u7TG9uWv010352 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:09:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs-24.5-3 (TEST) To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <813d6bc7-345c-2f95-2148-58a7c9f3ff77@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:02:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00587.txt.bz2 On 1/23/2016 6:30 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > This is a rebuild of the 24.5-2 packages, patched to allow native > Windows paths like C:\foo or C:/foo in situations where file names are > expected. For the sake of the archives, I'm announcing here that I consider this experimental release to be a failure[*]. I won't be including the patch in the upcoming release of emacs-25.1. Ken [*] It only allows Win32 paths in a few situations. For example, they can't be used as arguments to 'C-x d'. Extensive changes to the emacs code would be required in order to allow them everywhere, and I don't think it's worth the trouble or the risk of breaking something. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple