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 18:54:04 +0300 Message-ID: <83mw93apk3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412956483 26668 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 15:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:54:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 17:54:36 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 1XccWa-00037y-9D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:54:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49174 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccWZ-0001tl-Rn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccWK-0001tH-KR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccWE-0004Z7-Nv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:58481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccWE-0004Yz-Fa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:54:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND800K00JLG2600@mtaout29.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:53:19 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND800KJSK4V9210@mtaout29.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:53:19 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:100378 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:44:56 -0400 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I definitely don't mean one that's present out of the box. But one that > > people can easily install once and then use it to > > install/uninstall/update Emacs and whatever other Free Software > > she wants. > > The standard answer is Cygwin Cygwin is not a package manager, it is a project that includes a package manager. > but some people are apparently against it. It has its disadvantages if you must heavily use non-Cygwin programs.