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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Volunteering to maintain ob-asymptote.el within Org
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:05:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lesgd3x0.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tu791u93.fsf@iki.fi>

Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi> writes:

>> TBH, this is the first time I'm hearing about it.  I've looked it up,
>> and indeed it seems to be useful.  
>
> For some reason, even people who would certainly benefit from Asymptote
> often have not heard of it. The developers do not really
> advertise. Asymptote is amazingly powerful and sophisticated.

Then, it would help to have more practical examples compared to what we
have in
https://www.orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-asymptote.html

>> That said, shouldn't this be in org-contrib?  Too many features in a
>> tool - featurism - may be distracting, in the sense that you focus
>> more on your tool than work at hand.  
>
> I do not understand this. Why would supporting a professional-level
> graphics programming language be distracting someone from their work
> when using Org?

That a common minimalist argument. Some people dislike the fact that
software includes features they do not personally use. Similar arguments
are often raised regarding, for example, games shipped with Emacs.

I disagree in this particular case. Having ob-asymptote.el is not a
featurism - I would not expect people to play around a full new
programming language just because ob-language.el is in Org. The barrier
of entry is too high to make it destructing.

Another question is long-term maintainability. We have a limited
manpower and cannot cater too many support requests or take care about
parts of code not used by most people. After removing org-contrib over a
year ago, your email is the first issue raised regarding ob-asymptote
removal. Since you are volunteering to maintain it, things gets easier.
However, the final decision is after Bastien.

>> And that said, to work around this, I reckon that's why (?)  we have
>> org-contrib.  You - the end user - install what you want/need. 
>
> Yes, but whenever we split up support, we raise the threshold for the
> use of a combination of tools, in this case Org and Asymptote.
>
> Org is a very powerful publication tool. Does it not make complete sense
> to include support for a tool for creating professional-quality
> publication graphics?

Apparently asymptote is not commonly used (at least, not in my research
field). We do provide built-in support for Gnuplot, LaTeX TikZ, and
Python (Matplotlib), PlantUML. AFAIK, they are much more common.

Best,
Ihor


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-26  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-21  5:16 Volunteering to maintain ob-asymptote.el within Org Jarmo Hurri
2022-07-21 10:22 ` Munyoki Kilyungi
2022-07-22  7:28   ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-07-25 21:15     ` Munyoki Kilyungi
2022-07-25 21:15     ` Munyoki Kilyungi
2022-07-26  3:40       ` Greg Minshall
2022-07-26  9:52       ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-07-26  2:05     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2022-07-26 10:09       ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-07-27  3:12         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-27  3:13         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-27  0:03       ` Tim Cross
2022-07-27  3:06         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-27  4:09           ` Tim Cross
2022-08-18 16:04             ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-27  4:07       ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-09-01  7:52 ` Bastien
2022-09-03 13:25   ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-09-27 22:06     ` Bastien
2022-10-08  9:58       ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-11-09  6:21         ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-10 12:23           ` Jarmo Hurri
2022-11-13  4:27             ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-11-19 11:15               ` Bastien
2022-11-21  6:59                 ` Jarmo Hurri

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