From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Integrating package.el Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:42:00 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87wrzv9r5j.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <878wclke6j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k4w5lbyb.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87zl50jv52.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d41rn3wt.fsf_-_@hagelb.org> <87k4vxiwlj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aawsh7ou.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyv0co7z.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262792961 31638 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 15:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:49:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 16:49:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSY8C-0004g9-Jh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:49:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSY8D-00008l-3M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSY5c-0006iH-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:46:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSY5Z-0006gL-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:46:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55451 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSY5Y-0006gE-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:46:24 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54314) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSY5X-0004U1-Ee for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:46:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NSY4B-000263-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:44:59 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:44:59 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:44:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mghfAFSekC9oQabTsEU4XByrc98= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119531 Archived-At: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:19:56 -0700 Tom Tromey wrote: >>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov writes: Ted> I would like to at least show a message or offer a prompt (answering 'y' Ted> launches the assistant), is that possible? If not that's OK. Tom> It is sort of possible. Tom> You can do anything you like in an autoload. These will be evaluated Tom> when the package is activated, which does happen when the package is Tom> installed. Tom> I think this would be pretty unfriendly to users, though. For example, Tom> what if the user installs several packages at once? OK, if it doesn't fit with the package.el flow, let's drop it. Stefan and Reiner are also not crazy about the idea so it's probably a bad one :) I'll make the assistant run on the first Gnus startup. There's several other issues I raised, but at least this one can be safely ignored. Ted