From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided" Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:48:55 +0200 Message-ID: <489EFFD7.5080209@gmail.com> References: <15Emk.26$E36.15719654@news.odn.de> <662F8BC9-036A-4A67-96C4-C6C70BD3E5AE@Web.DE> <489C612A.1040600@gmail.com> <489CBF52.6010101@yahoo.de> <489E06AB.7000708@yahoo.de> <87bq01lj01.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218379776 31656 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2008 14:49:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:49:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 10 16:50:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KSCFW-0004ie-Ji for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:50:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSCEa-0004MK-NI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSCED-0004Hf-Cx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSCEA-0004BM-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58833 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSCEA-0004Ay-Bx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:39558) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSCE9-0000in-SL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62737 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KSCE8-0005LG-3l; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:49:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87bq01lj01.fsf@kobe.laptop> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080809-0, 2008-08-09), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KSCE8-0005LG-3l. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KSCE8-0005LG-3l 3a02d7f9ec6347e7429df98b734e233d X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56402 Archived-At: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Thanks Rainer, >> >> That is probably something left over from an older installation of >> Emacs. Could you perhaps try to delete or rename the c:/Emacs23/ >> directory and install Emacs again? > > Yep. > >>> You should take care of this, but I don't think it's related to your >>> original problem. >> It is a bit related to the installer for Emacs+EmacsW32 that I >> distribute. I have written it so that it does not delete the old Emacs >> tree, but I think that is a mistake. >> >> I think I will let it delete the emacs directory before installation. It >> should be (rather) safe since a user should not put files there. >> >> Any thoughts on this? > > Hi Lennard, > > First of all, a big thank you for making Windows builds of Emacs. I > always download your builds and install them when I am forced to work on > Windows, because I can't stand most of the other Windows editors :-) Thanks. > I don't really know much about the internals of the Windows installers > of the packaging system of Windows, but let me describe an idea that may > be useful. > > You could modify the installer to > > (1) perform pre-installation checks. When it finds an existing > installation it can prompt the user that "An existing Emacs > installation has been found. Please uninstall it first, and rerun > this installer." > > (2) Only remove the files that the installer itself added to the > system (i.e. by using some sort of "packaging list"). Thanks for the suggestions. I think they are reasonable and good. However the installer that I am using (Inno Setup, it is very good) does not have this possibility during reinstallation. You have to uninstall before installing to get this effect. I have decided to leave it as it is at the moment, but I will try to find a place to add a noticeable remark on the problem. Maybe I will add it to the information you see during installation (though I guess you normally never read that info ...).