Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > You didn't answer the question of what you want contrib to be or I'm too > dense to find where.
I want contributed Org libraries to be maintained in a separate Git repository the same what the GNU ELPA packages are maintained in their own repository, outside Emacs. > You keep talking about an Org ELPA that doesn't exist AFAICT Org ELPA does exist: http://orgmode.org/elpa.html http://orgmode.org/elpa/archive-contents http://orgmode.org/elpa/ What I'm missing? > and about your > expectation of unspecified advantages that this might have. The main advantages I see: 1. it would clarify the representation of Org's ecosystem for the users; 2. it would make it easier to discover Org contributed packages by using the Emacs packaging system facilities; 2. this way we won't need to give write access to Org's core for contributors who only maintain a contributed package. The first two points are the most important, since we never had problems with contributors. M-x list-packages RET is the way users expect to find packages. A new Org exporter should be listed there, not in within some obscure "org-plus-contrib" package, and not from a directory. > Again, > please clearly state what you want this to be as well as why and how it > is better than what we have now. I want this this to be a separate Git repo the same way GNU ELPA is a separate git repo from Emacs (that's the "what"); because it is better in terms of discoverability (M-x list-packages RET); and this is better because it reuses what users have learned to use recently. >>> If you are suggesting to remove the history of contrib from Org's repo, >>> then I'm against it. >> >> Why? > > For starters, that would require everyone maintaining their own branches > to also migrate (or abandon) them. You'd need a _really_ good reason to > do this and so far I see none. If that's a blocker, we can move forward only removing the contrib/ directory, not the Git history. I'm fine with this, and that's much easier. I feel like I won't convince you and this is not my decision, so I'll stop advocating for this to happen, I just hope it will. -- Bastien