From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Porter Subject: Re: bug#32722: bug#32722: 26.1; Org-publish depend on non-free platform ? Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 07:30:05 -0500 Message-ID: <87in35mxpu.fsf@alphapapa.net> References: <531a7f93882cc0d5d09700457d06ea082f47569b.camel@flqt.fr> <83sh2ck42e.fsf__3482.76448571614$1536905032$gmane$org@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1WBw-0003TK-Bb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 08:30:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1WBt-0007wm-8I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 08:30:20 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35555 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1WBs-0007ug-Sx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 08:30:17 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g1W9j-0002jP-B8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 14:28:03 +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 I'm not an expert on this package nor this situation, however, looking at the htmlize.el file shows: ;; Copyright (C) 1997-2003,2005,2006,2009,2011,2012,2014,2017,2018 So it would appear that the package has existed longer than either GitHub or Org. I'm guessing that its author moved its primary repo to GitHub after Org started using it. In hindsight, perhaps it would have been better to move htmlize into Emacs before adding it to Org proper. But many things are clearer in hindsight. Regardless of where it is hosted, htmlize.el is Free Software, and it's an optional addon to Org. We can encourage its author to add it to Emacs proper, or to ELPA. But surely it's not necessary to censor the mention of "GitHub" in the manual; it's simply a fact that GitHub exists and that htmlize.el is currently hosted there. It would seem unreasonable for the Org maintainers to have reacted to htmlize.el's moving to GitHub by removing htmlize.el support while it remains Free Software, yet that's the logical conclusion of this argument. So please do not remove support for this package because of where its repo happens to be hosted at the moment. That would be a major regression, and it would not be in users' best interests. It would not be fair to remove a major feature used by thousands of users and demand that "someone" (since there is no one ultimately responsible) rewrite large parts of ox-html.el to fix it. It would at least seem fair for those insisting on the change to do the necessary work.