Re: Use DEFAULT argument to completing-read

Martin> it. (Dear readers: sorry, but the fact that you're Martin> reading this puts you into the lunatic fringe) I skipped that part ;-> Martin> It might make sense to have supported and unsupported Martin> packages, (and the supported ones are seamfully bundled Martin> with XEmacs), but we're not currently doing this either. Who is the designer of the plist fields in the `package-get-base' alist? I assume it's Steve L. Baur, whose disappearance from xemacs-.*(a)xemacs.org is still a mystery to me. One field is called `standards-version'. Currently all packages in /anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp have a 1.1 standards-version. How about bumping this standards-version to 21.2 for all packages known[1] to only work with (emacs-version>= 21 1)? All "stable" packages could be bumped to standards-version to 21.1. Then it should be fairly easy to change to PUI UI to offer the users to upgrade to the latest package of a certain standards-version. The default could be a standards-version of (string-to-number (format "%d.%d" emacs-major-version emacs-minor-version)) to make things easy for the novice user. KJ> the packages they need to get work done. So I think providing KJ> a fancy interface over the package system is largely a waste KJ> of time. We need a way to keep unstable packages from the Not if you're concerned about "market share", I think. KJ> stable ones, so the user gets a choice. We need a way for the KJ> user to easily see what they need to install to get a certain KJ> feature. Martin> Again, the user should be able to get an excellent editor Martin> by following these simple and obvious steps: Martin> tar xf Martin> configure Martin> make Martin> make install Martin> After that, the user should be able to customize to his Martin> heart's content, including removing and adding new pieces Martin> of functionality. Martin> How the content of that user tarball is subdivided into Martin> development projects is up to us. Having standards-version should also make the package maintainer's and sumo package wrestler's life easier. Martin> Martin Best regards, Adrian Footnotes: [1] or assumed, for a start