From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65715 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus/assistant.el Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:50:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195314719 3510 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2007 15:51:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:51:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 17 16:52:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ItPxk-00045w-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:52:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ItPxX-0005SP-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:51:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItPxU-0005SE-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:51:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItPxU-0005S2-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:51:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ItPxT-0005Rx-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:51:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ItPxP-0002mX-Ar; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:51:43 -0500 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lAHFpcmQ000982; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:51:38 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC5412CBC; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:51:38 +0100 (CET) X-Face: 3Phac&+dw=IZHjhua]bp}LH<*p{qzj8u+ List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83452 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65715 Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 16 2007, Richard Stallman wrote: > Would someone please delete gnus/assistant.el from the trunk I don't say it's wrong to remove the file. But I was hoping that it attracts more developers if it was installed somewhere in Emacs along with a TODO entry. Having an "install wizard" / "setup assistant" (i.e. the functionality `assistant.el' provides) would probably be useful for other Emacs packages or tasks as well. See the "screenshot below for an example" (`assistant.el' is not specific to Gnus). Already finished (to the point of actually being usable): - Definition of a texinfo-like format (*.ast) for the setup steps - Parsing and rendering the *.ast files, widgets, ... Most important missing functionality, AFAICS: - Setting the variables (put them into the customize block) - Navigation (goto the next *.ast file) Bye, Reiner. ,----[ *Assistant Configuring Gnus for the first time* ] | Configuring Gnus for the first time | | What do you want to do with Gnus? | | Welcome to Gnus. You need to tell us what you want to do with Gnus | before we go on to specific configurations. | | Choose the tasks you want to set up: | Set: | [X] Read news via NNTP | [ ] Read mail, store it locally | [X] Read mail and store it on an IMAP server | | | Choose the method Gnus will use to send mail: | (*) Send mail via sendmail | ( ) Send mail via SMTP | | | [<< Go back to What do you want to do with Gnus?][Reset] | [Proceed to Setting up a NNTP server >>] `---- -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/