I am for leaving it to the users discretion as to weather or not they have Org installed. I think if anyone out there wants to open an .org file, more than likely, they know what it is and how to get it. If not there is a plethora of information out there to point them in the right direction.
After all, isn't free software, at least somewhat, about choices? :) On Dec 18 at 11:32 PM, Reuben Thomas said thus: > On 18 December 2016 at 19:21, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> auto-mode-alist has more than 200 entries. we're gonna remove .org? >> > > Org is nearly 90kLOC, or about 6.5% of the total ELisp code currently in > Emacs. It's bigger than CEDET, smaller than GNUS. > > It's a project of its own with its own release cadence. It would be good to > make Emacs less of a monolithic entity, which needs lengthy debugging > cycles between releases, and has to choose between being out of date with > various upstreams, or delaying to test integration of big packages. > > Now that package.el is mature, there's no need for Emacs to include all > this stuff in its source releases. > > What emacs -Q does is a different matter: there's plenty of scope to ship a > variety of packages "out of the box". Various customised Emacs > "distributions" already do this. > > "you must install org to view this format" is a bit too minimal for my >> taste. :) sounds like adobe flash. :) >> > > I'm sure plenty of Emacs users never open an Org-mode file. Why should > they have to install it? > > surely this topic was raised to have a bit of fun seeing all the >> responses? :) >> > > No, I was just testing the waters to see if a more modern approach to > development and distribution might be popular. Apparently the answer is, at > least, not yet! > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org
