From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>
To: 63536@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63536: Feature Request
Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 15:36:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfbs5tpx.fsf@turtle-trading.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bkijxenf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 17 May 2023 16:37:24 +0300")
Hi Eli,
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> So you want a command to check whether a newer Emacs is available?
> But where should this command look? Many (most?) people install
> precompiled binaries prepared by their distros, and I assume those
> distros have their "check for updates" service or something?
>
> We could check on the GNU FTP site, but how many users will want to
> download and build Emacs from sources?
>
> What do other people think about this?
Since you asked for it ;-):
I dislike it when programs annoy me with dialog boxes like that at
startup. I start a program because I want to do something that uses it,
not to maintain the program.
I use Debian and I like working with its package management. It is
especially bad when programs tell me they have a new version, but the
package manager doesn't actually have it.
I also do not always want the latest version of any program in the first
place, as long as the current version still does what I want.
Regards, benny
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2023-05-16 11:39 ` bug#63536: Feature Request Andrew Goh via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-16 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-05-17 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-05-17 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-17 16:53 ` Jim Porter
2023-05-19 13:36 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl [this message]
2023-05-17 14:04 ` Payas Relekar
2023-05-17 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-17 15:40 ` Payas Relekar
2023-05-17 15:51 ` Payas Relekar
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