Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Regarding 1.2.7 Installation under MS Windows

[David Kastrup]

Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi James,
>
> if you don't know how to compile AUCTeX under Windows you can install
> the precompiled package:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download-for-windows.html

In
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/auctex/Installation.html#Installation>
I read

    The simplest way of installing AUCTeX is by using the Emacs package
    manager integrated in Emacs 24 and greater (ELPA). Simply do M-x
    package-list-packages RET, mark the auctex package for installation
    with i, and hit x to execute the installation procedure. That’s all.

    The remainder of this section is about installing AUCTeX from a
    release tarball or from a checkout of the AUCTeX repository.

The question is why James would want to do the latter rather than the
former.

-- 
David Kastrup