From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: New Citation syntax on the master branch? Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 13:02:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9rgn3jv.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> References: <871tioj456.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <554F0848.3030508@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45458) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsUPQ-0003HL-AT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2015 07:01:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsUPP-0006Ia-DP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2015 07:01:04 -0400 Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::196]:43153) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsUPP-0006Hy-7g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 May 2015 07:01:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <554F0848.3030508@gmail.com> (Vaidheeswaran C.'s message of "Sun, 10 May 2015 12:57:04 +0530") 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: Vaidheeswaran C Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Vaidheeswaran C writes: > On Sunday 10 May 2015 12:44 PM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > >> It will land in the trunk once a library using it for Org core is >> implemented. I put it in a separate branch so that such a library can be >> built, discussed and tested. > > 1. Do you, as a maintainer, have any specific plans for this library? I'm not a maintainer. Anyway, I have no specific plan besides installing it in core once involved parts (both developers and users in the ML) agree on its quality and usefulness. > 2. What conditions should such a library satisfy in order that it is > considered a candidate. I don't use a reference manager myself. However, we are lucky enough to count on users of such things on the ML. Their opinion matters. A candidate should be useful enough to make at least a part of them willing to use it instead of their current set-up. > 3. Are there any contenders for this library at this moment. There was a discussion about it a couple of months ago. IIRC, there is a library being developed there. > For example, is ox-jabref.el a contender for this library. If "No", on > what counts it fails to get through the gate. There can be more than one library: one for Jabref, one for Zotero, one for BibTex... Different users have different needs. The question is: which one would be included in Org core? Ideally, org-citation (oc.el for short) could implement the UI, and libraries talking to reference managers (e.g oc-jabref, oc-zotero, oc-bibtex...) could be used as back-ends feeding "oc.el". In this situation, we could include more than one back-end in core. >From an external POV, I think "org-ref.el" pretty much defines what features could be included in "oc.el" (though, some of them would be back-end specific). Regards,