Re: automatically adding menu entries in auto-autoloads.el
"Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" wrote:
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com> writes:
Ben> both of you are missing a fundamental point -- the vast majority of users will
Ben> have *all* packages installed. there are hundreds of them -- can you imagine
Ben> hundreds of menu items under Tools?
Like Jan, I don't get it either: There currently *aren't* hundreds of
menu items under Tools. The selection of packages that do insinuate
themselves upon autoload seems just right to me: the menu entries tell
people that the packages exist. Even I, who's been hacking XEmacs for
more than half a decade, still occasionally find out about an Elisp
package I hadn't known about before.
but what makes the current packages any better than the ones that don't
insinuate themselves? lots of those are useful, too. e.g. i personally have no
use whatsoever for ldap, which i'm sure is the same for the majority of users.
This is a problem easily addressed once it actually bothers a user.
it bothers me, esp. the ediff menus. it's NOT easily addressed -- imagine
convincing 25 separate package maintainers to remove their menus!
BTW Ben, you started this discussion on xemacs-review. *This* one
really belongs on -beta, if you want one.
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