Re: [O] [BABEL] the julia language

[Eric Schulte]

Jay Kerns <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear Eric,
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Jay,
>>
>> Having read through intro-julia.org and scanned ob-julia.el I have to
>> say this looks great.  Thanks for sharing!
>
> I should be saying "Thanks" to you!  Org Babel is truly great work; I
> use it almost every day of my life.
>
>> Would you be willing to contribute ob-julia.el to the Org-mode
>> repository?
>
>
> Yes, of course, it would be an honor to give back to the Org
> community.  And I'm not just saying that.
>
>
>> I don't see you listed as an Org-mode contributor (see
>> [1]), so to do so you would likely have to complete the FSF copyright
>> attribution.  Please let me (and more importantly Bastien) know if this
>> is something you'd like to do, so we can help get julia support into
>> Org-mode.
>>
>
>
> OK, I'll get started on that right away.
>

Thanks.  It is great to hear that you are finding Babel useful.  I
shouldn't take too much credit for Babel as the Org-mode community has
contributed the bulk of the language-specific back ends which really
make Babel work.  Also, thanks to Bastien for handling much of the core
Babel maintenance as of late.

>
>
>> Additionally, it would be nice for your excellent introduction to be
>> added to worg, and for julia to be listed as a supported babel language
>> (see [2]).
>
>
> Thanks for the kind words, and I would be happy to contribute to worg.
>  I've been sitting on my hands about worg so far because I'm scared
> I'm going to break it with something that isn't compatible with the
> old exporter.

This makes sense, however, with worg in a git repo, revisions are easy,
so a little trial and error shouldn't cause any lasting damage.

> In an earlier message Bastien indicated that Org 8.0 might be coming
> out in a few weeks (thanks, Bastien!) and I've been trying to wait for
> it patiently.
>

Waiting is probably the best approach.  Unfortunately the FSF
assignments generally take on the order of weeks, so there should be no
need to rush on the documentation before the code is incorporated.

>
> In the meantime, maybe I'll check out the maintenance branch and dig
> up those old configurations to get the ball rolling on my side.

Thanks again, it is very gratifying to see Babel continue to grow even
as I have less time personally to work on it.

Cheers,

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte