Re: Emacs for Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:44:56 -0400
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The standard answer is Cygwin

Cygwin is not a package manager, it is a project that includes a
package manager.

> but some people are apparently against it.

It has its disadvantages if you must heavily use non-Cygwin programs.