From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:21:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423236100 2430 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2015 15:21:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 15:21:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Neal Becker Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 06 16:21:39 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YJkix-0006FJ-1I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 16:21:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJkiw-0004Jg-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:21:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJkif-0004J4-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:21:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJkib-0003mJ-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:35988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJkia-0003mC-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:21:17 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t16FLF4o005991; Fri, 6 Feb 2015 10:21:15 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 46722FAD; Fri, 6 Feb 2015 10:21:15 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Neal Becker's message of "Fri, 06 Feb 2015 08:56:56 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5209=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5209> : inlines <2043> : streams <1385760> : uri <1848117> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182538 Archived-At: > As an old-time emacs user, I'm delighted with the new package > features. But one thing lacking, I still have to manually check for > updates from time-to-time. It would be great to have an automatic > check that would notify the user of available updates. I'd accept a patch which does that. Note that I definitely do not want Emacs's default behavior to include automatically contacting some remote host on a regular basis. So such a (mis)feature would be disabled by default. Stefan