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Re: bootstrap from scratch
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Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
Re: bootstrap from scratch |
Date: |
Fri, 06 May 2005 00:28:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> Loading appt.el used to activate the appointment package (in a
> convoluted way, I think; can't remember the details now). When I
> changed it so it did not, I had an email from someone saying he had
> missed a bunch of appointments.
>
> So I had to make loading the package activate it, for "historical
> reasons".
Mail from one user does not seem to be a good reason to reintroduce
buggy behaviour. It has been the convention in Emacs for a long time
now that loading a package does not have side-effects.
Perhaps a better approach is to start a timer on load, and if appt is
not "activated" within a few seconds, then warn the user that loading
the package no longer activates it, and tell them the prefered way of
activating appt (usually via an autoloaded function).
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, (continued)
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Alan Shutko, 2005/05/05
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Ed Reingold, 2005/05/05
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Alan Shutko, 2005/05/05
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Ed Reingold, 2005/05/05
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Glenn Morris, 2005/05/05
- org.el fix, Alan Shutko, 2005/05/05
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Glenn Morris, 2005/05/05
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Stefan Monnier, 2005/05/05
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Glenn Morris, 2005/05/05
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Kim F. Storm, 2005/05/05
- Re: bootstrap from scratch,
Jason Rumney <=
- Re: bootstrap from scratch [is now appt activation], Marcelo Toledo, 2005/05/06
- Re: bootstrap from scratch [is now appt activation], Jason Rumney, 2005/05/06
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/06
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Jason Rumney, 2005/05/06
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/07
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/06
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Glenn Morris, 2005/05/06
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/06
- Re: bootstrap from scratch, Richard Stallman, 2005/05/06
Re: bootstrap from scratch, Marcelo Toledo, 2005/05/04