From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:22:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87y4smlgo2.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <87ppdytxrl.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <83ppdy8ui1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413044740 28252 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 16:25:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:25:40 +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 18:25:33 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 1XczU4-0004AO-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:25:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54666 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XczU3-00084N-QW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:25:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XczTk-00084F-Pb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XczTe-0000Qh-Sq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XczTe-0000QA-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:25:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XczTb-0003zZ-Qk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.red-79-158-173.staticip.rima-tde.net ([79.158.173.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 198.red-79-158-173.staticip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.red-79-158-173.staticip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YXm41B29DmSKENpfAwShZKaZRCY= 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:100421 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. I think that this directly addresses the OP question: ezwinports's packages contain changes that enhances the performance and robustness (sometimes by a large amount) over those built from the pristine sources, if there are alternatives at all.