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Re: Emacs for Windows


From: David Engster
Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:16:03 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux)

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




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