From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:14:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87lhomtld3.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87y4smlgo2.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413058490 18796 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 20:14:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 22:14:43 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 1Xd33q-0003Yw-SV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 22:14:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55192 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd33q-0002tv-Ad for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd33a-0002px-Ll for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd33S-00053i-KZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.38]:53767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd33S-00053d-Eh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB12499E86 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 13405 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2014 20:14:17 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.77.205.252]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 11 Oct 2014 20:14:17 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87y4smlgo2.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93sca?= =?utf-8?Q?r?= Fuentes on Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:22:53 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.38 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:100436 Archived-At: =C3=93scar Fuentes writes: > Eli Zaretskii 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