From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: [RFC] Move ox-koma-letter into core? Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:50:09 -0700 Message-ID: <87eh4259r2.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878uueciku.fsf@gmail.com> <55F46D73-2430-4831-ABE9-D66AE03647E7@gmail.com> <874n50cdnu.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87mwisrrv8.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87k3dwaw98.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87r482wo2k.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87ha8yjzeb.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87eh42wju4.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <874n4yju56.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5RRy-0007Yn-4r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:52:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5RRq-0002Nu-8O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:52:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: Eric Schulte's message of "Mon\, 20 Jan 2014 14\:31\:42 -0700" 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: Bastien Cc: Achim Gratz , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> >> My suggestion is to get rid of the contrib/ directory and to have >> a separate Git repository with libraries available from Org ELPA. >> If I understand correctly you are suggesting two thing. 1. We remove the contrib/ directory, and host the contributed packages in a single new org-contrib (or somesuch) repository. 2. We begin packaging each contrib/ file as a separate ELPA package. This would entail; a. Enhancing the functionality of the existing Org-mode elpa site [1] to host these new packages, and possibly to provide some nicer package list or sort/search functionality. b. Adding some sort of automated (e.g., Makefile) support to extract these package from either the existing org-mode or a new org-contrib repository. c. Possibly pulling package metadata (e.g., license, author, requirements, keywords, summary, etc...) automatically from the contrib source files in the manner of MELPA [2] and Marmalade [3]. I believe these two suggestions could be implemented independently from each other and I do not see why they need by related. My thoughts on them are as follows. 1. I don't like this suggestion because; - I like having all contributed packages easily at hand, and I like that most people I talk to on this list also have contrib packages readily at hand. - It provides a way for Org-mode to "endorse" third party packages, and it serves as a useful incubator for functionality which is headed for the core but may need wider testing (e.g., code block support and the new exporter framework). 2. I think this suggestion could be nice, although depending on how it is done it risks both being a large amount of work and duplicating the already duplicated functionality of MELPA and marmalade (I'm specifically thinking of automated metadata extraction here). I hope this is constructive. Best, Footnotes: [1] http://orgmode.org/elpa/ [2] http://melpa.milkbox.net/ [3] http://marmalade-repo.org/ -- Eric Schulte https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte PGP: 0x614CA05D