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From: Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca>
To: Florin Boariu <florin.om@rootshell.ro>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-ditaa woes
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:22:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmvhnr8b.fsf@t14.reltub.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZTEML8zWrB6kQflk@toolbox> (Florin Boariu's message of "Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:59:59 +0200")

Hello Florin,

On Thu, Oct 19 2023, Florin Boariu <florin.om@rootshell.ro> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am not on the mailing list, so I'm hoping that some kind soul with
> moderator powers will have mercy and let my email through in a timely
> manner :-) Also, please CC me in on the answer. (I'll happily
> subscribe if you feel that I should, but this is likely to be my only
> encounter with the Org-mode list, so it's probably bogus...)

You can read (and post to?) this email list on gmane.

> But in the source code of org-ditaa.el
> (https://github.com/tkf/org-mode/blob/master/lisp/ob-ditaa.el) I can
> see something like this on lines 87 ff:
>
>> [...]
>>        (cmd (concat "java " java " " org-ditaa-jar-option " "
>>		      (shell-quote-argument
>>		       (expand-file-name
>>			(if eps org-ditaa-eps-jar-path org-ditaa-jar-path)))
>>		      " " cmdline
>>		      " " (org-babel-process-file-name in-file)
>>		      " " (org-babel-process-file-name out-file)))
>> [...]
>

I think you have identified a bug in ob-ditaa.el. Your request is
perfectly reasonable and that CMD should not have such hard-coded
constants in it, imo.

> I suck at LISP, but I'm guessing this means that there simply
> is no way of just passing on a "/usr/bin/ditaa" command-line to
> "org-ditaa", or at least an alternative Java command like "flatpak
> spawn --host /usr/bin/java ...". Org-ditaa really *does* insist of
> glueing it together from "java -jar ..." pieces, and is stubbornly
> adamant on finding Java in the same FS namespace.

Can you give us the command-line you would like to use?
That would help to fix the problem you are confronting.

>
> Is there a deeper reason behind this? This pretty much breaks
> Flatpak, or any other sandboxing compatibility, as far as I
> understand. Can it be changed? Please? :-)

The deeper reason is likely that ob-ditaa worked for whomever wrote it,
and users have either accepted its limitations (if noted), worked around
them, or gave up.

>
> How can I make it accept a command line?
>
> Is there any "generic" way of making org-babel accept a command line,
> not necessarily going through "org-ditaa", as a workaround?

You could use ob-shell, but it would be preferable to fix the bug you
have identified.

>
> Thanks & cheers,
> Florin.

Leo

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-20 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-19 10:59 org-ditaa woes Florin Boariu
2023-10-20 17:22 ` Leo Butler [this message]
2023-10-20 18:16   ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-10-20 19:31     ` Leo Butler
2023-10-20 21:39   ` Florin Boariu
2023-10-21  3:50     ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-23 11:18       ` Florin Boariu
2023-10-24  7:55         ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-24  9:31           ` Florin Boariu
2023-10-24  9:38             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-25 19:00               ` Leo Butler
2023-10-26  8:44                 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-26  9:30                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-12-20 18:03               ` Leo Butler
2023-12-21 14:15                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-26 15:32           ` Leo Butler
2023-10-23 12:25       ` Florin Boariu
2023-10-21  7:44     ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-10-21  8:56       ` [TASK] Allow customizeable ditaa executable in ob-ditaa.el (was: org-ditaa woes) Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-09  3:17         ` [TASK] Allow customizeable ditaa executable in ob-ditaa.el Leo Butler
2023-11-09 12:17           ` Max Nikulin
2023-11-10  3:19             ` Leo Butler
2023-11-10 10:09               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-10 10:38               ` Max Nikulin
2023-11-10 15:21                 ` Leo Butler
2023-11-11 10:07                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-10 10:18           ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-10 14:59             ` Leo Butler
2023-11-11 10:24               ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-13 16:26                 ` Leo Butler
2023-11-15 11:12           ` Formatting worg code examples (was: Re: [TASK] Allow customizeable ditaa executable in ob-ditaa.el) Max Nikulin

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