Re: Emacs for Windows

[Óscar Fuentes]

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.