Hi all, sorry for coming in super late to this thread, but I'd like to make a plea to *not* deprecate the :noweb-ref header arg.
On 12 May 2016 at 19:35:15, Aaron Ecay wrote: > To put it another way: it seems to me that the functionality of > :noweb-ref can be reimplemented in terms of other primitives. And given > Nicolas’s comments about the complications and bugs it introduces, I’d > be in favor of deprecating and eventually removing it. I've been investing thousands of hours over the past years to author several largish opensource projects (~40,000 SLOC total) exclusively in org-mode, using hundreds of code blocks with :noweb-ref headers, all of which would have to be replaced, re-tangled and the resulting code re-tested, often manually... Maybe some of this could be automated, but in any way it'll be a pretty large undertaking, which I'd like to avoid, if possible... I also think, having a feature deprecation like this should require a major version change (depending how one interprets semantic versioning) of org-mode (e.g v9.0.0). Already, I often struggle convincing users of my libs that authoring libraries in org-mode is better than in plain vanilla source code, but I think it'd be wrong to not just force a non-standard tool, but then also specific versions of that tool in order for people to help contributing. Finally, and in summary, I never ever had a single issue w/ :noweb-refs and they're by far in my top 3 favourite org-mode features... Please don't kill 'em! Just my two pence... K. -- Karsten Schmidt http://thi.ng | http://postspectacular.com | http://toxiclibs.org
