Re: Should Emacs have an upgrade procedure?

[Lennart Borgman]

2010/3/21 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:39:52 +0100 Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> LB> 2010/3/21 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
>>> 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.
>
> 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.