Re: Emacs for Windows

[Robert Thorpe]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
>> 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.

On MS Windows I generally use mingw because I use a lot of native Windows
programs.

The problem I've found is knowing which port to pick since there are
several systems (mingw, mingw2, gnuwin32 & ezwinports).  There's a lot of 
overlap in the programs they provide

Eli, what's the advantage of your ezwinports over the ports provided by
others?

BR,
Robert Thorpe