Re: Emacs for Windows

[Robert Thorpe]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Eli, what's the advantage of your ezwinports over the ports provided by
>>> others?
>>
>> What others?  I only build a package if either there are no Windows
>> ports at all for it, or the existing ports are very old, or buggy, or
>> broken.  I'm like you: if a reasonably good port of a package already
>> exists, I prefer to install it, rather than build it myself.  So
>> there's nothing you can compare with what I put on the ezwinports
>> site.
>
> I think that this directly addresses the OP question: ezwinports's
> packages contain changes that enhances the performance and robustness
> (sometimes by a large amount) over those built from the pristine
> sources, if there are alternatives at all.

Yes, that answers my question.  I'm only a casual user of most of these
programs, so I wouldn't know what versions are very old or buggy.  I'll
try it out.

BR,
Robert Thorpe