From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Integrating package.el Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:19:56 -0700 Message-ID: References: <878wclke6j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k4w5lbyb.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87zl50jv52.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d41rn3wt.fsf_-_@hagelb.org> <87k4vxiwlj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aawsh7ou.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyv0co7z.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Tom Tromey NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262740084 24653 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 01:08:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 01:08:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 02:07:57 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 4.50) id 1NSKNQ-000786-1n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:07:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39502 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSKNQ-0002K5-68 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:07:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSIhB-0008A0-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:20:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSIh7-00088A-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:20:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35330 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSIh7-000881-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:41860) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSIh7-0000Cv-2M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSIh0-00026V-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o05NJxCd027755 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:19:59 -0500 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o05NJwfR020859; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:19:58 -0500 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o05NJuIF032637; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:19:57 -0500 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8739237828E; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:19:56 -0700 (MST) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87tyv0co7z.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:04:48 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.11 X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:119483 Archived-At: >>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov writes: Ted> I would like to at least show a message or offer a prompt (answering 'y' Ted> launches the assistant), is that possible? If not that's OK. It is sort of possible. You can do anything you like in an autoload. These will be evaluated when the package is activated, which does happen when the package is installed. I think this would be pretty unfriendly to users, though. For example, what if the user installs several packages at once? Tom