From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure? Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:55:59 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87zl21yy8g.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269219491 8792 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2010 00:58:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:58:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , 'Emacs development discussions' To: joakim@verona.se Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 01:58:07 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtVy2-0008Uz-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:58:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtVy2-0003wQ-AL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NtVwH-00035L-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54331 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtVwD-000341-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:56:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtVwC-0005fn-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out1.starman.ee ([85.253.0.3]:49691 helo=mx1.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtVwC-0005fY-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:56:12 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.30.14.cable.starman.ee [82.131.30.14]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308B63F409D; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:56:05 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: (joakim@verona.se's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:36:36 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:122430 Archived-At: >> 2. Some kind of easy dialog to let them opt in/out for individual changes, and >> for large groups of changes at once, and even for all changes. > > Yes. > >> #2 could be done using an organized dialog box (groups of check boxes, for >> example). Or something else could be devised. (A "wizard-like" long sequence of >> "Do you want X?" is a no-no, IMO.) > > I agree. I think this could be better done with the Customization UI. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/