Glenn Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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). _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
