From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hotfixing older Emacsen? Was: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:30:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1du2gs-0005ak-KE@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mv5sh2gz.fsf@petton.fr> (message from Nicolas Petton on Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:48:12 +0200)
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> What if the user was asked for a confirmation before upgrading? Would
> that be a good solution?
That still implies pressure on the user to upgrade.
Informing the user that there is a new version, without pressure,
would be ok. We can say why we think it is highly desirable to
upgrade and suggest looking at other materials about the issue. But
not pressure!
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Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-11 20:52 [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 8:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 11:29 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 11:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 12:10 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-12 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 12:44 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-09-12 12:55 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 13:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 13:29 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-12 15:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 15:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 15:55 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-12 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:26 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 19:09 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:39 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-13 6:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 16:42 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-12 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:38 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-12 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 19:00 ` Robert Weiner
2017-09-12 20:49 ` martin rudalics
2017-09-12 22:05 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-12 23:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-09-13 16:18 ` Tino Calancha
2017-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-20 22:32 ` Tim Cross
2017-09-21 7:25 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-21 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-21 18:53 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-21 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-21 19:26 ` Richard Copley
2017-09-21 20:56 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-22 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-22 15:29 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-27 10:18 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-29 9:54 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-29 10:46 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-29 12:46 ` Richard Copley
2017-10-02 11:54 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-30 7:22 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-21 20:37 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-22 2:02 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-22 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 15:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 6:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 6:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 7:07 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-13 7:40 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-13 8:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-13 8:57 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2017-09-13 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 8:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 8:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 15:12 ` Mike Gerwitz
2017-09-13 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 18:14 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-19 23:36 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-12 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-14 14:19 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2017-09-14 20:50 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-13 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-12 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 16:05 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-09-12 16:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-12 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-09-12 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-14 6:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-09-15 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 11:15 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-09-12 22:11 ` Timur Aydin
2017-09-12 22:16 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-12 16:06 ` Roland Winkler
2017-09-12 16:41 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-12 16:54 ` Roland Winkler
2017-09-12 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 17:40 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-12 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 18:29 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-13 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-13 19:36 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-09-14 1:42 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-14 6:37 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-09-14 13:24 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-09-14 15:01 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-14 20:52 ` [ANNOUNCE] " Richard Stallman
2017-09-12 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 17:46 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-13 1:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-14 19:49 ` security-patches package (was: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released) Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-15 12:32 ` security-patches package Stefan Monnier
2017-09-16 15:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-21 20:01 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-22 3:12 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <878th32hzx.fsf@russet.org.uk>
2017-09-25 10:24 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-22 12:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-09-23 4:15 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-12 23:45 ` Hotfixing older Emacsen? Was: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-09-14 10:05 ` Phillip Lord
2017-09-18 0:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-18 7:48 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-18 11:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-18 20:31 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-18 20:30 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-09-13 18:40 ` Charles A. Roelli
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