From: Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: The fate of ob-asymptote.el
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:55:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jzb25qq.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
Greetings.
Summary: I vote, very late, for the inclusion of ob-asymptote.el into
Org. In my opinion, Asymptote is far too valuable a tool to be excluded
by default.
Long version:
Either me or my system have been sleeping for quite a while, because
just today I woke up to the fact that ob-asymptote.el has been moved out
of Org and into org-contrib. According to org-contrib, this means that
Files in this repository receive little if no maintainance and there is
no guarantee that they are compatible with the Org stable version.
Not only is this a poor situation for me personally, but I also think it
is a bad decision for Org. I have been using the combination of Org and
Asymptote for all my work stuff for a long time now. The combo is simply
_superior_. I do not need to talk about Org, and will focus on Asymptote
only.
Asymptote is a _brilliant__ tool for drawing all sorts of (scientific)
diagrams, be those 2D or 3D (click on menu on left to view different
galleries):
https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/
Asymptote has been a stable programming language for quite a while:
https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/
It is being actively maintained and upgraded.
If ob-asymptote.el is kept external to Org, future users will have a
much higher threshold to use this combination.
I would like ob-asymptote.el to be brought back. If there is something I
can do to help, I will be glad to do so.
All the best,
Jarmo
next reply other threads:[~2022-07-20 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-20 14:55 Jarmo Hurri [this message]
2022-07-20 15:18 ` The fate of ob-asymptote.el Tory S. Anderson
2022-07-20 19:43 ` Nick Dokos
2022-07-21 5:17 ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-07-21 11:54 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-21 13:21 ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-22 0:27 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-22 7:12 ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-07-26 1:46 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-26 10:23 ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-07-27 3:24 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-27 7:31 ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-07-28 14:29 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-30 9:23 ` Jarmo Hurri
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