From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnus/assistant.el
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:50:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9d4u8yipe.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1It5zt-0007zl-Mh@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:32:57 -0500")
On Fri, Nov 16 2007, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Would someone please delete gnus/assistant.el from the trunk
I don't say it's wrong to remove the file. But I was hoping that it
attracts more developers if it was installed somewhere in Emacs along
with a TODO entry.
Having an "install wizard" / "setup assistant" (i.e. the functionality
`assistant.el' provides) would probably be useful for other Emacs
packages or tasks as well. See the "screenshot below for an example"
(`assistant.el' is not specific to Gnus).
Already finished (to the point of actually being usable):
- Definition of a texinfo-like format (*.ast) for the setup steps
- Parsing and rendering the *.ast files, widgets, ...
Most important missing functionality, AFAICS:
- Setting the variables (put them into the customize block)
- Navigation (goto the next *.ast file)
Bye, Reiner.
,----[ *Assistant Configuring Gnus for the first time* ]
| Configuring Gnus for the first time
|
| What do you want to do with Gnus?
|
| Welcome to Gnus. You need to tell us what you want to do with Gnus
| before we go on to specific configurations.
|
| Choose the tasks you want to set up:
| Set:
| [X] Read news via NNTP
| [ ] Read mail, store it locally
| [X] Read mail and store it on an IMAP server
|
|
| Choose the method Gnus will use to send mail:
| (*) Send mail via sendmail
| ( ) Send mail via SMTP
|
|
| [<< Go back to What do you want to do with Gnus?][Reset]
| [Proceed to Setting up a NNTP server >>]
`----
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-17 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-16 18:32 gnus/assistant.el Richard Stallman
2007-11-17 3:59 ` gnus/assistant.el Glenn Morris
2007-11-17 9:48 ` gnus/assistant.el Andreas Schwab
2007-11-17 15:50 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2007-11-17 23:31 ` gnus/assistant.el Richard Stallman
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