Re: [O] org mode moves to GNU emacs core

[Phillip Lord]

Bastien Guerry <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Philip,
>
> address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:
>
>> I presume you do see this as an advantage? The issue is, surely,
>> that it's too much of a PITA for the advantage that you gain?
>
> Well, it's not really about PITA-or-not-PITA, it's just that I want
> org-mode to be the default mode for some files in Emacs, and having
> org-mode in Emacs' core is the most simple way to go for this.
>
> Maintainers of projects like Gnus or CEDET don't want their code to
> live outside of Emacs repo neither, so I guess simplicity is a big
> win.


Yes, it would appear that way. But, at the moment, to be distributed
with Emacs you have to be in the emacs repo. We've discussed this
before, I know, but these two things are not an absolute
necessity. Having the Emacs build populate it's source tree with
packages is also possible.

Phil