From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposals for fixing package-initialize
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 12:41:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyk21dumgs.fsf@Lumet.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CADB4rJH_GkduJALjCkQAqHuvP5om561hihzcao+9RL+iMHAJ7Q@mail.gmail.com
FWIW, I'm a 30+ year user of emacs. I'm comfortable writing
elisp and reading emacs elisp source but have never dived
into the C source and am a little behind on the newer
trendier packages.
When I started using package.el I ran into the common
problem and had to figure out to add (package-initialize) to
my init and thought it was clunky. When I read the reason
for me to do this I immediately wondered why it didn't work
like Proposal B. I've never felt the need to customize
package.el so I haven't had to change anything since.
But I wanted to point out another advantage of Proposal B,
it's obvious to semi-advanced users.
--
Howard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-05 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-04 5:31 Proposals for fixing package-initialize Radon Rosborough
2017-09-04 12:47 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-04 16:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-09-04 16:36 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-09-05 16:41 ` Howard Melman [this message]
2017-09-07 15:55 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-09-14 19:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-15 1:30 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-09-15 12:35 ` Stefan Monnier
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