From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
Cc: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The fate of ditaa.jar (9.4.5.)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 20:56:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM9PR09MB49771EBA5C1F40E5468774E296539@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-4cc10d70-2589-44d0-ad69-dd6c59a4cdd5-1620696144763@3c-app-mailcom-bs03> (Christopher Dimech's message of "Tue, 11 May 2021 03:22:24 +0200")
Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
> If org-mode wants to support ditaa, it is a requirement to inform the user how to
> get the software and install it. Moving into into a separate repository without
> appropriately telling the user introduces the problem that users will miss out
> on free software that they would otherwise have used. Using org should not be made
> more difficult than it already is.
>
Another problem I didn't mention in previous replay, is that user can
have wrong (outdated) version of Java installed on his/her machine which
might not be compatible with ditaa version org mode ships, which may
introduce further questions and problems. IMO I think it is better to
leave out 3rd party applications and let users install those on their
own.
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 8:49 AM
>> From: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> To: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>
>> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: The fate of ditaa.jar (9.4.5.)
>>
>> "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de> writes:
>>
>> > Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> writes:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 02:28:57PM +0300, Jarmo Hurri wrote:
>> >>> I pulled the latest master and noticed that contrib has been moved into
>> >>> a separate repository. I also cloned this contrib repository, but can
>> >>> not find the file
>> >>>
>> >>> scripts/ditaa.jar
>> >>>
>> >>> in the repo. In fact, there is no directory scripts in the repo.
>> >>
>> >> I actually never considered this might be packaged with Org. I always
>> >> thought I had to install it separately, like my Latex distribution or
>> >> PlantUML.
>> >
>> > Bundling this makes ditaa code blocks just work. Otherwise they won’t
>> > work on every org-install.
>>
>> The user still needs a Java runtime installed on his/her compute, so
>> bundling ditaa.jar gives no guarantee at all that ditaa blocks will just
>> work on every org-install.
>>
>> Instead a less informaed user, not used to run java programs, might be
>> left with a not working application that fails silently or to the user
>> incomprehensible error message.
>>
>> Better to point user to ditaa's sources/releases and inform it is
>> optional with org. That way non-informed user will have to install java
>> and ditaa and will at least have an idea where to look when things go wrong.
>>
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-11 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-10 11:28 The fate of ditaa.jar (9.4.5.) Jarmo Hurri
2021-05-10 11:50 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-05-10 12:28 ` Russell Adams
2021-05-10 17:07 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-05-10 20:49 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-11 1:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-11 18:56 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2021-05-11 20:53 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-05-12 8:44 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-12 9:41 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-05-12 14:51 ` Russell Adams
2021-05-13 12:44 ` Jarmo Hurri
2021-05-13 14:06 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-13 20:08 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-05-14 1:13 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-14 5:30 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-05-14 5:39 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-14 11:23 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-14 11:57 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-10 18:41 ` Nick Dokos
2021-05-11 1:25 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-11 4:33 ` Tim Cross
2021-05-11 6:35 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2021-05-11 6:53 ` he " Christopher Dimech
2021-05-11 8:36 ` The " Tim Cross
2021-05-11 12:52 ` TEC
2021-05-11 19:15 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-12 0:06 ` Tim Cross
2021-05-12 8:47 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-15 17:31 ` [External] : " Daniel Ortmann
2021-05-11 19:02 ` Arthur Miller
2021-05-16 12:19 ` Bastien
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