From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:02:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83ppdy8ui1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ppdytxrl.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413043396 12755 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 16:03:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:03:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 18:03:09 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 1Xcz8M-00046k-6v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:03:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcz8L-0003hU-SA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcz85-0003hP-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:02:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcz7z-0001yf-3n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:02:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:51639) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcz7y-0001yZ-Rt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDA00K00E08GX00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:00:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDA00JOIF5JIJ40@mtaout26.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:00:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87ppdytxrl.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 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:100418 Archived-At: > From: Robert Thorpe > Cc: > Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:46:22 +0100 > > 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.