[ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs 28.1-1 (TEST)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs 28.1-1 (TEST)

[Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce]

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution as test 
releases.  Note that there have been some packaging changes, so that the package 
names better reflect the package contents.

* emacs-28.1-1

This is now a virtual package that forces installation of one of the following 
four "binary" packages.  If you don't select one of these four, then emacs-basic 
will be installed by default.

* emacs-basic-28.1-1
* emacs-w32-28.1-1
* emacs-gtk-28.1-1
* emacs-lucid-28.1-1

Each of these contains an emacs binary of the same name as the package.  For 
example, emacs-basic provides /usr/bin/emacs-basic.exe, formerly called 
emacs-nox.exe.  emacs-gtk used to be called emacs-X11.  For backwards 
compatibility, the old names /usr/bin/emacs-nox and /usr/bin/emacs-X11 can still 
be used.

* emacs-common-28.1-1

This contains files needed by each of the four binaries.

Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. 
Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and 
the capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor.

This is an update to the latest upstream release.  Browse the NEWS file ('C-h n' 
within emacs) for changes since the last release.

This release is a test release only because of the packaging changes.  If no 
problems are reported, it will be promoted from test to current in a week or so.

Unlike the previous test release, this release was *not* built with the new 
native compilation feature, which still needs more testing.  Once 28.1-1 has 
been promoted to current, I will make a new test release, 28.1-2, built with 
native compilation.

CYGWIN NOTES
============

1. The four binary packages emacs-basic, emacs-w32, emacs-gtk, and
    emacs-lucid have been listed in order of increasing "priority".
    The postinstall scripts create a symlink /usr/bin/emacs that
    resolves to the highest-priority binary that you have installed.
    Thus the command 'emacs' will start emacs-lucid.exe if you've
    installed the emacs-lucid package; otherwise, it will start
    emacs-gtk.exe if you've installed emacs-gtk; otherwise, it will
    start emacs-w32.exe if you've installed emacs-w32; otherwise, it
    will start emacs-basic.exe.  Similar remarks apply to emacsclient.

    If you have installed more than one of the binary packages and
    don't like the default resolution of /usr/bin/emacs, you can run
    one of the /usr/bin/set-emacs-default-*.sh scripts to change it.
    For example,

      /usr/bin/set-emacs-default-w32.sh

    will make /usr/bin/emacs resolve to /usr/bin/emacs-w32.exe,
    regardless of which packages you've installed.

2. Install emacs-gtk if you want to use the X11 GUI with the GTK+
    toolkit.  You can then type 'emacs&' in an xterm window, and
    emacs-gtk.exe will start in a new window.  If you prefer the Lucid
    toolkit, install emacs-lucid instead.

3. Install emacs-w32 if you want to use the native Windows GUI instead
    of X11.

4. Install emacs-basic if you want a minimal emacs with no GUI.

5. If you use the Emacs MH-E library for email, consider installing
    Cygwin's mailutils-mh package.  To use it, put the line

      (load "mailutils-mh")

    in your site-start.el or ~/.emacs file.

6. If you have sshd running and want to be able to run emacs-gtk or
    emacs-lucid from a remote machine, you need to enable X11
    forwarding by adding the following line to /etc/sshd_config:

      X11Forwarding yes

    You might also need to have the cygserver service running.

7. The script /usr/bin/make-emacs-shortcut can be used to create a
    shortcut for starting emacs.  See
    /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin for details.

Ken Brown
Cygwin's Emacs maintainer

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs 28.1-1 (TEST)

[Ken Brown]

On 4/6/2022 9:04 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin-announce wrote:
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution as test 
> releases.  Note that there have been some packaging changes, so that the package 
> names better reflect the package contents.
> 
> * emacs-28.1-1
> 
> This is now a virtual package that forces installation of one of the following 
> four "binary" packages.  If you don't select one of these four, then emacs-basic 
> will be installed by default.
> 
> * emacs-basic-28.1-1
> * emacs-w32-28.1-1
> * emacs-gtk-28.1-1
> * emacs-lucid-28.1-1
> 
> Each of these contains an emacs binary of the same name as the package.  For 
> example, emacs-basic provides /usr/bin/emacs-basic.exe, formerly called 
> emacs-nox.exe.  emacs-gtk used to be called emacs-X11.  For backwards 
> compatibility, the old names /usr/bin/emacs-nox and /usr/bin/emacs-X11 can still 
> be used.
> 
> * emacs-common-28.1-1
> 
> This contains files needed by each of the four binaries.
> 
> Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text editor. Emacs 
> contains special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the 
> capability to read mail, news, and more without leaving the editor.
> 
> This is an update to the latest upstream release.  Browse the NEWS file ('C-h n' 
> within emacs) for changes since the last release.
> 
> This release is a test release only because of the packaging changes.  If no 
> problems are reported, it will be promoted from test to current in a week or so.

This has now been promoted to current.

> Unlike the previous test release, this release was *not* built with the new 
> native compilation feature, which still needs more testing.  Once 28.1-1 has 
> been promoted to current, I will make a new test release, 28.1-2, built with 
> native compilation.

I'll do this within the next few days, once I'm sure there are no glitches with 
the new packaging.

Ken