First of all, the package stuff has come a *long* way since I looked
at it last. pui-list-packages is very cool, and you guys deserve a
round of kudos! Very easy to use, and it seems to work very well.
'Course I have a couple of suggestions, apologies if these have
already been discussed. :-)
- It would be nice if package-get-remote were set to point to
ftp.xemacs.org by default. I had to set this before I could get
anything working.
- It seems that any error in unpacking a package stops the whole
process. It would be better if the other packages could be
installed and some indicator in the *Packages* buffer could be used
to show there was a problem (you might change the colors to red for
problem, yellow to be downloaded).
As an example of this problem, I tried to install the irchat
package, which I didn't have installed. XEmacs couldn't find the
package on
ftp.xemacs.org, and install just stopped.
- It would be useful to include package sizes to know how much has to
get downloaded.
- It would be good to have a progressive indicator as things are
getting installed. I thought for example xemacs-base had just hung,
but (I think) it was just taking a long time.
- I've had some problems installing a package which I had done some
edits in, creating an RCS subdirectory. XEmacs complained that it
couldn't find .../package/RCS and the install process just hung.
I think that's it. Other than that, things look very good!
Thanks,
-Barry