From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 11:37:35 +1030 Message-ID: <87wqunk1pk.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <876229nrxf.fsf@gmail.com> <20130204101748.33a30fe2@vknecht-intel.unibw-hamburg.de> <87d2wgp4t3.fsf@gmail.com> <20130204215610.GA22930@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U2Wzt-0000d1-KD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:06:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U2Wzr-0006eo-F5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:06:52 -0500 Received: from tx2ehsobe002.messaging.microsoft.com ([65.55.88.12]:24680 helo=tx2outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U2Wzr-0006dD-8p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:06:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20130204215610.GA22930@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (Suvayu Ali's message of "Mon, 4 Feb 2013 22:56:10 +0100") 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Suvayu Ali Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Suvayu Ali writes: [...] > I would echo this sentiment. Org mode from master has no business in a > production environment, just like any other software project. Although I agree, in principle, with this statement, life is not always so straightforward. I track org for my day to day use because I find some of the new features that appear quite useful. However, I do also rely on some form of stability for certain tasks. These are conflicting desires and I realise that this is *my* problem! However, I also am concerned at the move to the new exporter without documentation. This move appears premature if the documentation is not yet ready, not even in a draft form. I have been using the new exporter for many tasks but have not completely moved over for two: generation of beamer presentations and publishing of web pages. The latter is probably not a major issue for me but the former is. I simply have no idea how to convert my old org beamer files to the new exporter as there is no documentation at all. The source code (org-e-beamer.el) is of some help but not enough for me to know how to convert, in particular, slides with blocks and columns. Maybe it will be trivial to convert. However, I have been unsuccessful in finding anything on the mailing list that describes how to. This could be my fault in not searching properly, of course, so I would welcome any pointers to relevant emails. My solution will be to not update org until that documentation is available. Not a major problem but frustrating nonetheless. By the way, in case this email is taken the wrong way, I am in no way upset or angry! And I really appreciate all the work that has gone into the new exporter: it works brilliantly for those aspects that I have figured out and is a great step forward for org overall. Thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D : in Emacs 24.3.50.1 and Org 7.9.3e-897-g787a07