Poll: is ~/.emacs auto-migration worthwhile? Or too dangerous?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David Kastrup writes:

 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
 > 
 > > SL Baur writes:
 > >
 > >  > There are exactly 0 valid usages of it and an apparently infinite number
 > >  > of harmful ones.
 > >
 > > Nonsense.
 > 
 > Isn't the purpose of a poll _getting_ rather than _pushing_ opinions?

Depends on how you define "opinion", of course.  To the extent that
Steve is saying "I think automigration sucks" in a rather implicit
way, it's an opinion and to the extent that I have anything to do with
changes to the automigration code (including removal) I'll take it
into account.

But as a fact, he's wrong; I provided a counterexample.  There are
valid use cases.

As for my personal opinion, I didn't much like it what I first saw it,
and I still think that any code that trusts Custom to DTRT in edge
cases is setting up users for a big fall.  OTOH, I think automigration
has helped to reduce the incidence of the FAQ as I described it,
though it's anybody's guess as to how much.