From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: , Radon Rosborough <radon.neon@gmail.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>,
Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize)
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:18:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871so6jgyb.fsf@jetstar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46e80edb-399d-4063-8772-1f21be553eda@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2017 09:54:32 -0700 (PDT)")
>>>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> +1 - what Yuri said.
> And this is not just about new users. Such an interrogation is
> not friendly for new or old users, even if old users might have a
> better chance of understanding what is meant.
> There must be a way to make package.el behavior failsafe, simple,
> and without gotchas, for users. That should be the goal.
> Whether that can be done in a backward-compatible way is, IMHO,
> less important than making sure the new behavior is solid.
> Using the package system should be opt-in, and it should be simple
> and unintimidating.
> (Just one opinion.)
Emacs code browser (ecb) copies the old init file to
~/.emacs.before_ecb_2.40 before inserting an option into the original
~/.emacs. The user is told all this before he is asked to ok it. It's
all straightforward and transparent, even to a newbie like me.
Could not something similar be used in the case of package.el?
--
--
Colin Baxter
m43cap@yandex.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-20 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-20 2:38 Summary and next steps for (package-initialize) Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 6:10 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-20 17:20 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 18:09 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-20 18:39 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 0:33 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-21 4:08 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 8:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-20 17:21 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 8:15 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-20 17:21 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 16:37 ` Alex
2017-08-20 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 16:46 ` Yuri Khan
2017-08-20 16:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-20 17:18 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2017-08-22 21:24 ` Alex
2017-08-20 17:22 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 17:54 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 16:43 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 20:33 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-22 4:52 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 8:41 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-22 16:02 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-22 18:09 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 21:01 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-21 9:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-21 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 16:34 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 17:47 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-22 11:37 ` Timur Aydin
2017-08-22 16:58 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-22 21:04 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-23 5:17 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 11:33 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-08-23 17:16 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 13:28 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-23 17:31 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-23 18:32 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 20:27 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-23 20:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-23 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-23 21:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-23 21:53 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-24 0:44 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 6:39 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-25 1:03 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83fucg99cj.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-08-24 17:44 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-24 18:12 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-24 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-24 21:34 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-08-24 21:40 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83bmn496js.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-08-24 18:36 ` Drew Adams
2017-08-24 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 3:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-24 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-24 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-24 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-25 3:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 3:59 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 4:45 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 4:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-25 11:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 4:28 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-25 4:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-25 21:34 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-26 22:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-08-26 22:33 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 16:18 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-20 19:09 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-08-23 15:57 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-23 18:17 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 19:17 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-23 19:38 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-23 20:09 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-24 0:13 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 13:44 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-25 1:04 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-23 22:30 ` Nathan Moreau
2017-08-24 0:54 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-24 11:13 ` Nathan Moreau
2017-08-24 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-24 17:52 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2017-08-24 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-25 13:48 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-08-21 8:24 angelo.g0
2017-08-21 16:22 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-08-21 19:35 ` Angelo Graziosi
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