From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:14:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhomtld3.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4smlgo2.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from Óscar Fuentes on Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:22:53 +0200)
Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Eli, what's the advantage of your ezwinports over the ports provided by
>>> others?
>>
>> What others? I only build a package if either there are no Windows
>> ports at all for it, or the existing ports are very old, or buggy, or
>> broken. I'm like you: if a reasonably good port of a package already
>> exists, I prefer to install it, rather than build it myself. So
>> there's nothing you can compare with what I put on the ezwinports
>> site.
>
> I think that this directly addresses the OP question: ezwinports's
> packages contain changes that enhances the performance and robustness
> (sometimes by a large amount) over those built from the pristine
> sources, if there are alternatives at all.
Yes, that answers my question. I'm only a casual user of most of these
programs, so I wouldn't know what versions are very old or buggy. I'll
try it out.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-09 9:43 Emacs for Windows Alexander Shukaev
2014-10-09 18:07 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-10-09 22:37 ` E Sabof
2014-10-10 1:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-10-10 2:49 ` E Sabof
2014-10-10 3:13 ` John Mastro
2014-10-10 3:32 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-10 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-10 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-10 14:16 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 16:04 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 16:20 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 16:23 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 19:13 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-19 16:40 ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-11 15:46 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-10-11 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 16:22 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 20:14 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2014-10-10 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-10 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-10 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-11 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 14:44 ` David Engster
2014-10-11 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 16:25 ` David Engster
2014-10-11 16:41 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 17:19 ` David Engster
2014-10-11 17:38 ` David Engster
2014-10-11 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 17:58 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 15:44 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-10 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 18:34 ` Grant Rettke
2014-10-10 18:46 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-10-11 15:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 16:00 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 16:18 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 19:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-12 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-12 11:53 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-12 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-12 12:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-12 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 20:38 ` E Sabof
2014-10-10 23:57 ` John Mastro
2014-10-11 2:05 ` E Sabof
2014-10-11 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-12 9:09 ` E Sabof
[not found] ` <mailman.10884.1412944630.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-11 14:55 ` Mirko
2014-10-10 2:08 ` Grant Rettke
2014-10-21 19:38 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
[not found] <mailman.10793.1412858774.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-15 4:52 ` Bug Dout
2014-10-15 13:23 ` tux-
[not found] ` <CAKu-7Wzt6kD83or9xcSgSXi3Lqsc81fpvjq6RLUGZri4oZPT1Q@mail.gmail.com>
2014-10-15 15:23 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-10-15 15:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-15 15:52 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-10-15 21:54 ` John Mastro
[not found] ` <mailman.11194.1413386616.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-21 16:26 ` Jason Rumney
2014-10-21 17:58 ` John Mastro
2014-11-05 23:57 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2014-11-06 1:32 ` John Mastro
2014-11-06 1:36 ` John Mastro
2014-11-20 5:30 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
[not found] ` <mailman.14138.1416461463.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-30 17:27 ` Bug Dout
2014-11-30 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-06 1:56 ` Sampath Weerasinghe
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