From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure? Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:53:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87eijd7be3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877hp570ju.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269212048 21691 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2010 22:54:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 21 23:54:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtU1s-0004Pi-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:53:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtU1s-0002U9-1P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:53:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NtU1n-0002U4-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47916 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtU1l-0002Tw-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtU1h-0006sq-OW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:39060) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtU1h-0006sj-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so444316fgg.12 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:53:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1tkQs14Eq07M/W0WGkpz6JKAlktJXXGUTmLm7ENqaEA=; b=b8gnaoILassvnVXNTM1xIiOStFf8WL7t21A5z/hkCMnszgsQf7Bs1/94UHSN8sjPml 0l3yxXXPbjaNKNUPD19Ykqrds3lUaMwiYuYSRBN4KkrvcAgp9HuR/kvKqII/J0oveAZ3 71rimXWXKL65hvuCH/WPIdMnwpQtpDw87M0LY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wRj5OReBHhZs2DfruQ7InTwqWBbf2PVTDTN+cupiaAJp1w7zFRxxh1cc0OEHem1h8T IPNR8O/vY9w+KRRcy+t41VGYMp3Iu4pLCOQdrQjRuUr3S4xswjefZCxcQkS2xUExh5fL B0a3CKT37nL0aghyniazVOscKVoriQQAoULis= Original-Received: by 10.239.180.143 with SMTP id i15mr954610hbg.29.1269212022173; Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:53:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877hp570ju.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122426 Archived-At: 2010/3/21 Ted Zlatanov : > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:39:52 +0100 Lennart Borgman wrote: > > LB> 2010/3/21 Ted Zlatanov : >>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:41:52 +0100 joakim@verona.se wrote: >>> > j> Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure? > j> Here's a user story: >>> > j> - The user has just installed Emacs 24, previously having running > j> =C2=A0 Emacs23 > j> - The Emacs splash screen shows a message: "A number of defaults have > j> =C2=A0 been changed between Emacs 23 and 24. Would you like to go thro= ugh the > j> =C2=A0 changes, or just enable them?". This message is NOT shown if th= e user > j> =C2=A0 previously had expressed an opinion about these particular defa= ults. >>> >>> I think assistant.el (in Gnus) could be used to automate this. > > LB> Where is it? What does it do? > > Check out Gnus from CVS or: > > http://quimby.gnus.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gnus/lisp/assistant.el I can not find it there. When I click on "download" for 1.23 I get an error= .