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Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART
From: |
Giorgos Keramidas |
Subject: |
Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided" |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:58:24 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) |
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:48:55 +0200, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> I don't really know much about the internals of the Windows
>> installers of the packaging system of Windows, but let me describe an
>> idea that may be useful.
>>
>> You could modify the installer to
>>
>> (1) perform pre-installation checks. When it finds an existing
>> installation it can prompt the user that "An existing Emacs
>> installation has been found. Please uninstall it first, and rerun
>> this installer."
>>
>> (2) Only remove the files that the installer itself added to the
>> system (i.e. by using some sort of "packaging list").
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. I think they are reasonable and
> good. However the installer that I am using (Inno Setup, it is very
> good) does not have this possibility during reinstallation. You have
> to uninstall before installing to get this effect.
It's ok.
> I have decided to leave it as it is at the moment, but I will try to
> find a place to add a noticeable remark on the problem. Maybe I will
> add it to the information you see during installation (though I guess
> you normally never read that info ...).
I guess we can live with this. I had not heard of 'stale' files before,
because I normally uninstall the old version and clean up the directory
manually :)
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", (continued)
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/08/09
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/09
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Rainer Stengele, 2008/08/09
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/09
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/08/09
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Rainer Stengele, 2008/08/09
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/08/09
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Rainer Stengele, 2008/08/10
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- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Giorgos Keramidas, 2008/08/09
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided", Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/08/10
- Re: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-08-06 on LENNART-69DE564 (patched): error "Required feature `diary-loaddefs' was not provided",
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