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Stefan Monnier wrote:

> 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.

The standard answer is Cygwin; but some people are apparently against it.