Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure?

[joakim]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:41:52 +0100 address@hidden 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>   Emacs23
> j> - The Emacs splash screen shows a message: "A number of defaults have
> j>   been changed between Emacs 23 and 24. Would you like to go through the
> j>   changes, or just enable them?". This message is NOT shown if the user
> j>   previously had expressed an opinion about these particular defaults.
>
> I think assistant.el (in Gnus) could be used to automate this.
>
> j> OK, you get the picture I suppose. Good or bad? There are elisp
> j> libraries out there that already implements this of course.
>
> Any specifics?  I didn't know of such libraries.

I just remembered having seen something. Maybe it was in ECB, maybe in
Gnus. Not sure.

>
> Ted
>
>
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Joakim Verona