Re: Org merging [was Re: next pretest]

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Achim" == Achim Gratz <address@hidden> writes:
> Preventively, I'm claiming Humtpy-Dumpty privileges.  I thought the
> development projects get to decide what their bleeding edge is.

I'm more important, so I get to decide.  And by "important" I mean
exactly what I mean.  Don't put worth in my mouth, please!

> Not so fast.  To the best of my knowledge ELPA doesn't run make on the
> projects there, so the Org package you're producing would be non-functional
> -- which was the raison d'être for the current solution (or "hack"), IIRC.

Very good point.  The GNU ELPA infrastructure might need some beefing up
before it can produce a good package from the Org source code.  I don't
know the specific, but a few other packages require such extra "build"
stage (AUCTeX comes to mind, as does the recent discussion about Texinfo
docs), so it's something that needs to happen anyway.

> Since this list wasn't involved in the discussion, let me state again that
> such a split wouldn't quite work the way you envision it to do at the
> moment.  For one, it would quite likely increase the maintenance workload
> rather than reduce it.  Further discussion of this topic should be moved to
> the orgmode mailing list, though.

I'll happily bow out of this part of the discussion ;-)


        Stefan