From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas 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 18:58:24 +0300 Message-ID: <871w0wdfq7.fsf@kobe.laptop> 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> <489EFFD7.5080209@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218383958 10500 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2008 15:59:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:59:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 10 18:00:09 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 1KSDKx-0000Av-Rb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:00:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSDK2-0001l6-07 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:59:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSDJg-0001iD-1A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:58:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KSDJe-0001em-85 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37574 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSDJe-0001eX-0J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from igloo.linux.gr ([62.1.205.36]:36378) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSDJd-0008WJ-Jw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl157-83.kln.forthnet.gr [62.1.60.83]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id m7AFwQXT025308 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:58:32 +0300 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7AFwQQ6032035; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:58:26 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m7AFwOJB032031; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:58:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) In-Reply-To: <489EFFD7.5080209@gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:48:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) X-MailScanner-ID: m7AFwQXT025308 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.997, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.40, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:56404 Archived-At: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:48:55 +0200, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> 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. It's ok. > 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 ...). I guess we can live with this. I had not heard of 'stale' files before, because I normally uninstall the old version and clean up the directory manually :)