From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:16:03 +0200 Message-ID: <877g08ggd8.fsf@engster.org> 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 1412950621 5278 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 14:17:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:17:01 +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 16:16:48 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 1Xcazv-0004uK-LL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:16:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcazv-0001t0-8Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:16:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcaze-0001qF-Gp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:16:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcazU-0003JD-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcazR-0003Iy-1I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XcazP-0004dp-SR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:16:15 +0200 Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-039-039.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.39.39]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:16:15 +0200 Original-Received: from deng by dslc-082-083-039-039.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:16:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslc-082-083-039-039.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nYucKJ6CtMqCOJoUUT5zdMKTHIs= 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:100373 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> 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. 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. -David