package enhancement - auto check for updates

package enhancement - auto check for updates

[Neal Becker]

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.

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Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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

Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates

[Artur Malabarba]

Such a feature would also benefit from having package.el do the url
stuff asynchronously to prevent hanging the interface.

Still, even without that, a package-autoupdate-mode would be very nice.

2015-02-06 13:21 GMT-02:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> 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
>

Re: package enhancement - auto check for updates

[Kelly Dean]

Artur Malabarba wrote:
> Such a feature would also benefit from having package.el do the url
> stuff asynchronously to prevent hanging the interface.
>
> Still, even without that, a package-autoupdate-mode would be very nice.

With that feature, bug #19565 (the endless-data vuln), which currently isn't really a problem, would become an actual problem. I'll check if I can fix it easily.