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: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:47:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83ppe09b9w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> <877g08ggd8.fsf@engster.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412956114 20900 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 15:48:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:48:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 17:48:28 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 1XccQe-0008EC-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:48:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccQd-0000Xx-Uh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccQN-0000Xl-Hc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccQI-0002l1-4S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:37822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XccQH-0002jL-SM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND800J00JGJZ500@mtaout25.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:43:16 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND800C75JO4KZ70@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:43:16 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <877g08ggd8.fsf@engster.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:100377 Archived-At: > 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.