In its current state, a fresh install of rational emacs with the example config doesn't start. Not a good first contact for new users.

Two problems:

1. the doom-snazzy theme loaded in example-config.el
2. rational-evil - see Wrong number of arguments error #126

Both problems are due to loading out of date releases of emacs-evil and doom-themes respectively.

Possible fixes

1. Theme

The first problem is easily fixed: e.g. by #131

2. Evil

The second problem could be fixed by

1. convincing the maintainers of the respective packages to issue new versioned releases of their packages
   • probably be the best solution, but it's no quick fix. I opened Release - Version bump for MELPA Stable, NonGNU ELPA emacs-evil/evil#1610 over there.
2. changing the priorities of package repositories in early-config.el:
   • impacts rational-emacs' general policy of handling dependencies and requires a separate discussion.
3. not loading rational-evil in the example-config
   • no real solution
4. changing the current function calls in rational-evil to work with the out-of-date version of emacs-evil
   • requires work that no one really benefits from. It is already fixed in newer versions of emacs-evil after all.

Still, it's less than ideal when the first thing new users experience is a failing example config. Ideas?