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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 10:21:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk2zvyso1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mb2h78$8b8$1@ger.gmane.org> (Neal Becker's message of "Fri, 06 Feb 2015 08:56:56 -0500")

> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-06 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-06 13:56 package enhancement - auto check for updates Neal Becker
2015-02-06 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-02-06 16:21   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-02-10 18:31     ` Kelly Dean

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