Hi all, in future releases of Org, we will move toward stricter rules on what to accept as ob-* libraries and what modes these libraries should rely upon.
This was briefly mentioned in this email: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2020-02/msg00714.html For example, we can have a rule that we don't include ob-* libraries for languages that are not somehow known by Emacs. It would mean that e.g. ob-clojure.el would have to live outside Org's core. Also, for included ob-*, the idea would be to use the mode that are bundled with Emacs core. For Python, it would mean that ob-python.el should support python.el, not python-mode.el. This is not to say that python.el is better than python-mode.el: I have no opinion on this and I'm confident both meet different users. But that's something to consider. We can always have another ob-python-mode.el file for users who use python-mode.el: even the names would make it clear that Org babel uses one mode and not the other. I suggest we have the discussion on such rules after Org 9.4, but in the meantime, this is something you may consider when fixing hacking on ob-python.el. Best, -- Bastien
