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 16:46:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87ppdytxrl.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <83ppe09b9w.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413042417 1978 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 15:46:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:46:57 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 17:46:47 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 1XcysY-0006pe-Rd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:46:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54442 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcysX-0007Ft-SS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcysJ-0007Ex-OE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcysD-00067D-LM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.38]:41874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcysD-00066G-GK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail03.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.16]) by outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8518099D0D for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:44:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 32457 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2014 15:46:24 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.79.172.92]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 11 Oct 2014 15:46:23 -0000 In-Reply-To: <83ppe09b9w.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:47:55 +0300) 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:100414 Archived-At: 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 has a long way to go, > and it must convince the few people who produce high-quality ports to > distribute those ports via those package managers. It is much easier > to create a zip file of a binary distribution that use one of those. On MS Windows I generally use mingw because I use a lot of native Windows programs. The problem I've found is knowing which port to pick since there are several systems (mingw, mingw2, gnuwin32 & ezwinports). There's a lot of overlap in the programs they provide Eli, what's the advantage of your ezwinports over the ports provided by others? BR, Robert Thorpe