From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:48:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412948991 16160 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 13:49:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:49:51 +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 15:49:44 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 1XcaZh-0007YU-CJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:49:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcaZh-000297-2e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcaZO-00028l-F4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcaZ5-00032a-5Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53213) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcaZ5-000329-0N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XcaZ4-0007Bu-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:49:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-196-168-232.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.168.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:49:02 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-168-232.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:49:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-168-232.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:idWtoTXeca2EqSsGQ5GdiRrPmn4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:100372 Archived-At: >> Isn't there some kind of package distribution system for Windows (à la >> Debian's APT, Redhat's RPM, or MacPorts, Fink, younameit)? > Not one that is widely used, and not present out of the box on every > Windows machine. 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. Stefan