Re: Emacs for Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:44:58 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> >> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> >> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 09:26:15 -0400
> >> 
> >> >> How is that going to tell you when a bugfix release has been released?
> >> > You watch the site where you downloaded the previous one from.
> >> 
> >> Right, and of course that's a different site for each package.  To me
> >> that reads "nightmare" ;-)
> >
> > That's an exaggeration: there are maybe 2 or sites to watch.
> 
> Depends on what you have installed. I'd have to watch:
> 
> - ezwinports, obviously. :-)
> 
> - Emacs - depends on who is currently providing a binary, switches
>   pretty much every year.
> 
> - MinGW/MSys
> 
> - GNUWin32
> 
> - MSYSGit
> 
> - GnuPG
> 
> - Mercurial
> 
> - Python, Ruby: respective homepages
> 
> - GNU Global
> 
> - Exuberant Ctags
> 
> - Windows-only-but-free stuff like Clink, ConEmu, Putty/Plink
> 
> That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more. Obviously, I
> don't check all those regularly, only when I see the need, but that's
> not a good solution.

First, even the above is not a large list.  Second, I think you
exaggerate a little bit (e.g., GnuWin32 didn't see any new versions
since 2010, so no need to watch them anymore.  MinGW/MSYS and PuTTY
are likewise very seldomly updated.

So the problem is not as hard as Stefan might think.