From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 12721-done@debbugs.gnu.org, kostafey@gmail.com
Subject: bug#12721: 24.2; package-installed-p behavior on emacs startup
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:19:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1TSAyw-0004jL-4X@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzk38tz26.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:43:58 -0400)
> `featurep' typically indicates if a particular file has been loaded,
> whereas `package-installed-p' indicates whether the package is available
> (e.g. can be loaded).
> Should it be `package-available-p'?
It's probably not worse, but I don't see why it would be better.
I guess it depends how clear the current name is.
It wasn't clear to me that "installed" means "installed in your system",
but maybe most people will understand it.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-27 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 12:45 bug#12721: 24.2; package-installed-p behavior on emacs startup kostafey
2012-10-24 17:32 ` Glenn Morris
2012-10-24 17:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 5:13 ` kostafey
2012-10-25 12:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-26 1:33 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-26 2:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-27 1:14 ` Richard Stallman
2012-10-27 2:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-27 18:19 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2012-10-27 21:54 ` Stefan Monnier
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=E1TSAyw-0004jL-4X@fencepost.gnu.org \
--to=rms@gnu.org \
--cc=12721-done@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=kostafey@gmail.com \
--cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.