From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure? Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:34:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87eijd7be3.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269200090 15549 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2010 19:34:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 21 20:34:46 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 1NtQv4-0007Oe-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:34:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46665 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtQv4-0004D0-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NtQuz-0004CD-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56702 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtQuy-0004BO-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtQuw-0008V3-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:34:36 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:39529 helo=gate.verona.se) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtQuv-0008UP-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id o2LJYTDu013326; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:34:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87eijd7be3.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:55:16 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:122417 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:41:52 +0100 joakim@verona.se wrote: > > j> Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure? > j> Here's a user story: > > j> - The user has just installed Emacs 24, previously having running > j> Emacs23 > j> - The Emacs splash screen shows a message: "A number of defaults have > j> been changed between Emacs 23 and 24. Would you like to go through the > j> changes, or just enable them?". This message is NOT shown if the user > j> previously had expressed an opinion about these particular defaults. > > I think assistant.el (in Gnus) could be used to automate this. > > j> OK, you get the picture I suppose. Good or bad? There are elisp > j> libraries out there that already implements this of course. > > Any specifics? I didn't know of such libraries. I just remembered having seen something. Maybe it was in ECB, maybe in Gnus. Not sure. > > Ted > > -- Joakim Verona