From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Hotfixing older Emacsen? Was: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:30:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> <87mv5sh2gz.fsf@petton.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505766673 31428 195.159.176.226 (18 Sep 2017 20:31:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:31:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 18 22:31:07 2017 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 1du2h8-0007xL-UJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:31:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1du2hG-0002wF-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:31:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56118) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1du2h1-0002uQ-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1du2h0-0002DA-8f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:30:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53200) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1du2gt-0001zu-9M; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:30:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1du2gs-0005ak-KE; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:30:50 -0400 In-reply-to: <87mv5sh2gz.fsf@petton.fr> (message from Nicolas Petton on Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:48:12 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:218492 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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! -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.