Re: Remove Org from Emacs repository?

[MaDhAt2r <madhat2r@dukefoo.com>]

I am for leaving it to the users discretion as to weather or not they
have Org installed. I think if anyone out there wants to open an .org
file, more than likely, they know what it is and how to get it. If not
there is a plethora of information out there to point them in the right
direction.

After all, isn't free software, at least somewhat, about choices? :)


On Dec 18 at 11:32 PM, Reuben Thomas said thus:
> On 18 December 2016 at 19:21, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> auto-mode-alist has more than 200 entries.  we're gonna remove .org?
>>
>
> ​Org is nearly 90kLOC, or about 6.5% of the total ELisp code currently in
> Emacs. It's bigger than CEDET, smaller than GNUS.
>
> It's a project of its own with its own release cadence. It would be good to
> make Emacs less of a monolithic entity, which needs lengthy debugging
> cycles between releases, and has to choose between being out of date with
> various upstreams, or delaying to test integration of big packages.
>
> Now that package.el is mature, there's no need for Emacs to include all
> this stuff in its source releases.
>
> What emacs -Q does is a different matter: there's plenty of scope to ship a
> variety of packages "out of the box". Various customised Emacs
> "distributions" already do this.
>
> "you must install org to view this format" is a bit too minimal for my
>> taste.  :)  sounds like adobe flash.  :)
>>
>
> ​I'm sure plenty of Emacs users never open an Org-mode file. Why​ should
> they have to install it?
>
> surely this topic was raised to have a bit of fun seeing all the
>> responses?  :)
>>
>
> ​No, I was just testing the waters to see if a more modern approach to
> development and distribution might be popular. Apparently the answer is, at
> least, not yet!
>
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