Re: Obsolete org contrib package

[daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com>]

On 11/10/16 10:50, Joost Kremers wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 08 2016, Joost Kremers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 08 2016, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>>> So you mean there is no equivalent to both
>>>
>>>   (ebib-cur-entry-key)
>>
>> This one was what I was worried about, but on second thought, it
>> should be possible to simply use:
>>
>>     (ebib--get-key-at-point)
>>
>>> and
>>>
>>>   (ebib-db-get-field-value 'title key ebib-cur-db)
>>
>> That one's easier:
>>    (ebib-db-get-field-value "title" key ebib--cur-db)
>>
>>> "org-ebib.el" is already compatible with Org 9.0.
>>
>> Ah, good, I didn't realise that.
>>
>>> I'm Cc'ing the author. Ideally this library should be updated to new
>>> Ebib and moved to some ELPA.
>>>
>>> If Grégoire doesn't want to take care of it and no one volunteers to
>>> maintain that file, we can remove it.
>>
>> I was actually planning to add this functionality to Ebib itself. So
>> if Grégoire isn't interested in it anymore, I could put it in the Ebib
>> repo, or create a separate repo for it, either on Github or somewhere
>> else, wherever you prefer.
> 
> I received the following reply from Grégoire (which, although it was
> sent to the mailing list as well, apparently didn't show up there):
> 
> 
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> On 11/08/16 13:23, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>> I'm Cc'ing the author. Ideally this library should be updated to new
>> Ebib and moved to some ELPA.
>>
>> If Grégoire doesn't want to take care of it and no one volunteers to
>> maintain that file, we can remove it.
> 
> I don't use this package anymore.
> If anyone uses it, s/he take over it, otherwise we can just remove it
> from org-contrib.
> 
> ==================================================
> 
> Like I said, I'd be happy to take over maintainance. Just let me know
> how to go about making it available to org-contrib. (If there is a way
> to keep the file in the main Ebib repository, that would be my preference.)

IMHO it's best if you can maintain org-ebib as part of ebib itself.
We can remove org-ebib from contrib and you can add it to ebib.

Best,

> Best,
> 
> Joost
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