From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Malabarba Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:21:40 -0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423239718 1954 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2015 16:21:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 16:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Neal Becker , emacs-devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 06 17:21:57 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YJlfI-0006uP-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 17:21:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49156 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJlfI-00075I-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:21:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJlf4-00074I-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJlf3-0001xz-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:21:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22f]:47836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJlf3-0001xv-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 11:21:41 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ob0-f175.google.com with SMTP id va2so14156687obc.6 for ; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 08:21:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8xZUYCOTT33tNTy8MkyTARPdNdQ9ZUm46huKHqPmTM4=; b=xOlEnH9pwT1TlKk6JDgMAU1ylrj+i9EzHbijUbdKYAg1NFDIvZtWxMvGd72oNGIlMn dzJM9a/knuT2kfrb+BzmvJy1kKyIcKzOZLvZmTRqgXdU1uUEVE+2QMawhLpaHabIYyCF jKBe4rYWOP0wl1TVZOH3piLkRoKu75dvItl4vhRd0nlfZskC+ciLW51hlCV7fEnHPGuP FkYNsvW2rUuCnfcmBANGxXqbw+PnXA/+zSub183Z9NmZ//5GXLluOWGnWaaG/F7hFy9j 6x1DR4slOBb4oiXpHp+Yx7xRAaR2T5CQOgGk4Ya9Ff2OyEEDFJ/FjTPv7uaKsTnIMLZA WGvw== X-Received: by 10.182.104.42 with SMTP id gb10mr3023480obb.62.1423239700737; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 08:21:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.76.125.1 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Feb 2015 08:21:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: IX8N0jH9kaKdV99SDvCvWtdzE80 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22f X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182546 Archived-At: Such a feature would also benefit from having package.el do the url stuff asynchronously to prevent hanging the interface. Still, even without that, a package-autoupdate-mode would be very nice. 2015-02-06 13:21 GMT-02:00 Stefan Monnier : >> As an old-time emacs user, I'm delighted with the new package >> features. But one thing lacking, I still have to manually check for >> updates from time-to-time. It would be great to have an automatic >> check that would notify the user of available updates. > > I'd accept a patch which does that. > > Note that I definitely do not want Emacs's default behavior to include > automatically contacting some remote host on a regular basis. So such > a (mis)feature would be disabled by default. > > > Stefan >