From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:12:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83iojraopc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> <877g08ggd8.fsf@engster.org> <83ppe09b9w.fsf@gnu.org> <8738avhpwf.fsf@engster.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412957825 14720 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 16:17:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 18:16:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XccsD-0008Ij-Tb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:16:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccsD-0002Fu-0l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37141) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccoA-0004BJ-O6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:12:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcco5-0002Uu-RQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:54372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcco5-0002Un-JA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND800I00JWDID00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:12:40 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND800IWSL14I630@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:12:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <8738avhpwf.fsf@engster.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100379 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:04:48 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> From: David Engster > >> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:16:03 +0200 > >> > >> There's wpkg and Chocolatey, and from my impression the latter is > >> getting more and more popular: > >> > >> https://chocolatey.org/ > >> > >> It already has an Emacs package. > > > > But almost nothing of interest to Emacs users except Emacs itself, > > AFAICS (apologies if I missed something). > > It seems that most of the packages are non-free, indeed, and the > Chocolatey maintainers do not seem to care much about free software (it > seems you cannot search by license, for instance). Indeed, that's discouraging. > But there are things like GNU make, cmake, git, mercurial, wget, > tightvnc, clink, CLISP, Racket, gcc-arm, Python, Ruby, TCL, which is all > stuff which I currently have to install manually, so it at least gets me > thinking into trying it out. But some of them seem to be sporadically supported. E.g., they offer Make 3.81, whereas GNU Make 4.1 was released a few days ago (so at least 3.82 and 4.0 are missing).