From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Auto-installing packages? Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:52:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20180914115202.2fb9a3e9@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536940209 7732 195.159.176.226 (14 Sep 2018 15:50:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 17:50:05 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g0qM4-0001kL-3z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:50:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52301 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0qOA-00011L-Np for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:52:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0qO4-000114-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0qO3-0005IW-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400]:49494) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0qO3-0005HY-Mn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA40519F; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:52:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EF72DF999; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:52:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:470:30:84:e276:63ff:fe62:3400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229789 Archived-At: On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:51:09 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > So, I'm wondering how we could better serve our users by providing > them with an alternative solution to their underlying need, which > hopefully suffers less from those problems. > > Maybe some way to have something along the line of autoloads but > that instead of loading the Elisp code from a locally installed > package, they prompt the user explaining that this functionality > requires installing package FOO, etc? That's not too bad. A couple of flavors of Linux have a feature at the command line where if you run a common program that isn't installed, it tells you what package will install it. This would be comparable. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com