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 18:07:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83vbns9d5j.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 1412953683 20150 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 15:08:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:08:03 +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 17:07:56 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 1XcbnN-00027R-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:07:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48853 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcbnN-00067I-6Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:07:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50971) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcbn7-000673-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcbmz-0005NH-0F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:33348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcbmy-0005N7-Op for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:07:28 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND800900GPLEI00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:02:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND800CMKHSGKZ00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:02:41 +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: 80.179.55.181 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:100374 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:48:45 -0400 > > 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. > > I think such a package manager would really help spread the use of Free > Software under Windows. Like I said, I'm not aware of such a beast. Some projects have their own facilities, specific to the project (Cygwin and MinGW each have such thing), but they are incompatible and cannot read each other's metadata. To say nothing of the fact that they are only good for ports that are offered by the respective projects, and so are useless for 3rd-party ports.