Poll: is ~/.emacs auto-migration worthwhile? Or too dangerous? (was: Re: [PATCH] fix corruption of ~/.emacs when trying to migrate an init file XEmacs can't fully load)

[Jason Spiro]

2007/10/3, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Jason Spiro writes:
>
>  > This is a patch for a preference-corruption issue.  XEmacs (I use
>  > xemacs-21.5.27)
...
> [this patch is] probably not good
> enough by itself, there are other paths to the same unfortunate result.

OK.  So auto-migration corrupts some .emacs files.  I bet this makes
some users dislike XEmacs even though XEmacs made a backup of .emacs
first.

All:  do you think ~/.emacs auto-migration is worthwhile or not?
Please write "yes" or "no" to the list.  If you want, add some
comments.

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