From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bootstrap from scratch Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 14:51:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200505051718.j45HIrFG002303@emr.cs.iit.edu> <87fyx11pm0.fsf@vera.springies.com> <87vf5xzdbb.fsf@vera.springies.com> <6loebpo2mg.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115406126 30966 80.91.229.2 (6 May 2005 19:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 19:02:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: reingold@emr.cs.iit.edu, gmorris+emacs@ast.cam.ac.uk, ats@acm.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 06 21:02:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DU84d-0003Lh-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 21:01:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DU8Ba-00057U-J8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 15:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DU87c-0003Ou-ID for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 15:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DU87b-0003OJ-Li for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 15:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DU86H-0002b8-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 15:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DU81D-0002FO-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2005 14:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DU7vI-0004th-2f; Fri, 06 May 2005 14:51:40 -0400 Original-To: Jason Rumney In-reply-to: (message from Jason Rumney on Fri, 06 May 2005 00:28:27 +0100) 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:36769 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36769 Perhaps a better approach is to start a timer on load, and if appt is not "activated" within a few seconds, then warn the user that loading the package no longer activates it, and tell them the prefered way of activating appt (usually via an autoloaded function). This could be a good approach. But I am not sure, because probably most people that use this package activate it from the .emacs file. If it works well in that case too, then it is good.