From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe Brauer Subject: Re: org mode moves to GNU emacs core Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 08:33:24 +0000 Message-ID: <87d19hrkbv.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <87injf1asi.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87r2xyvv1q.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35630) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRwnb-000845-Dm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 04:33:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRwnX-00088p-79 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 04:33:39 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49839 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dRwnW-00085l-Ow for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 04:33:34 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dRwnO-00046C-4M for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 10:33:26 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>> "Bastien" == Bastien writes: > Hi Uwe, > Uwe Brauer writes: >> I am not sure whether I understand that discussion in emacs dev >> correctly. Will orgmode be moved into the GNU emacs try as it was done >> with gnus? > for the record, I would be in favor of this. Why? > - Less installation headaches > - Less maintainance and backward-compatibility headaches > - Possibility of having etc/TODO in Emacs using org-mode > - Attracting Org developers/contributors to Emacs repo > As a maintainer, I don't see any advantage of having Org > maintained as an ELPA package. But the release cycles are very different, so in order to have always the latest stable org package, I need to compile and install the whole GNU emacs beast. I thought the whole idea of a package system is to avoid this headache.