Re: Emacs for Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:04:48 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii 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 seems that most of the packages are non-free, indeed, and the
> Chocolatey maintainers do not seem to care much about free software (it
> seems you cannot search by license, for instance).

Indeed, that's discouraging.

> But there are things like GNU make, cmake, git, mercurial, wget,
> tightvnc, clink, CLISP, Racket, gcc-arm, Python, Ruby, TCL, which is all
> stuff which I currently have to install manually, so it at least gets me
> thinking into trying it out.

But some of them seem to be sporadically supported.  E.g., they offer
Make 3.81, whereas GNU Make 4.1 was released a few days ago (so at
least 3.82 and 4.0 are missing).