Re: [Orgmode] Plans for synching with Emacs dev sources?
On 13/04/10 22:57, Jan Böcker wrote: On 13.04.2010 22:15, Óscar Fuentes wrote: Currently I'm using 6.33x, which is the version that comes with Emacs dev source code. I'll like to use a more recent version of org-mode, and so I ask if there are plans for upgrading Emacs' org-mode sources with the current release. If not, I'll use org-mode git sources, although this would complicate a bit the deployment across several machines. AFAIK that happens whenever a new major version of emacs is released, which is very infrequently. Even if the next version of emacs would be just around the corner, you'd just find yourself in the situation of using a very outdated version again within a few weeks. However, deployment across several machines can be easy with git. My ~/.emacs.d is a git repository which contains all my emacs configuration and elisp library files. I have added org-mode as a submodule here, so after running git pull git submodule update on another machine, everything is in sync again. I use the org-babel approach to emacs configuration. In my startup.org, the first toplevel subtree contains code that finds out what machine it is running on by looking at the hostname and sets the variable jb/system. I have one toplevel subtree for common configuration and two for settings specific to one of my two machines. If you dont need machine specific configuration, you can use Dropbox. Like Jan I use org-babel and put all my configuration in .emacs.d in my Dropbox folder. I create a symink from ~/.emacs.d to ~/Dropbox/.emacs.d and my org setup is maintained all the computers where I have Dropbox installed. YoU can do the same thing with Ubuntu One. Ian. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Plans for synching with Emacs dev sources?
On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Eric Schulte wrote: Jan Böcker jan.boec...@jboecker.de writes: On 13.04.2010 22:15, Óscar Fuentes wrote: Currently I'm using 6.33x, which is the version that comes with Emacs dev source code. I'll like to use a more recent version of org- mode, and so I ask if there are plans for upgrading Emacs' org-mode sources with the current release. If not, I'll use org-mode git sources, although this would complicate a bit the deployment across several machines. AFAIK that happens whenever a new major version of emacs is released, which is very infrequently. If this is the case, then should we start pushing new versions of Org-mode to the Emacs development repository at every *Org-mode* version bumb, rather than at every Emacs version bump? In principle, this is the idea. Before 6.33 I pretty much pushed every Org-mode release to Emacs. At that point, Emacs went into feature freeze for another release (23.2, I believe), and therefore I had to stop updating. Now it is time to get back into this - but I have not done it due to time constraints. It is not trival to push our changes to Emacs. - Emacs now uses bzr, which I am not familar with. I have installed bzr and pulled the Emacs trunk onto my machine - but I still need to test if I can actually commit using that setup. I wish Emacs had chosen git, because this is what I know reasonably well now, and because git is, from what I can tell, better. - There are a lot of issues that need to be taken care of. 1. The Emacs developers regularly make global changes o all code in Emacs, to make use of new features or to implement new conventions. I try to merge all these changes into my development version. Sometimes this is not possible, because the changes the Emacs developers introduce will not work for older versions of Emacs (like Emacs 21 or 22). Example: interactive-p and called-interactively. 2. Because I am not as good with version control as I would like to be handwork has to be done, and I have been burned in the past several times because my changes reverted some changes made inside Emacs. This is a psychological barrier for me to go ahead and make the next update. Nevertheless, I am planning to update Emacs again - but I am not sure exactly when I will find the time. If there is a volunteer who is willing to take charge of the synchronization with Emacs, this would be absolutely great. But it would have to be a dedicated and careful person, who is willing to patiently work through the issues. - Carsten -- Eric ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode - Carsten ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Plans for synching with Emacs dev sources?
Carsten Dominik carsten.domi...@gmail.com writes: On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Eric Schulte wrote: [...] If this is the case, then should we start pushing new versions of Org-mode to the Emacs development repository at every *Org-mode* version bumb, rather than at every Emacs version bump? In principle, this is the idea. Before 6.33 I pretty much pushed every Org-mode release to Emacs. At that point, Emacs went into feature freeze for another release (23.2, I believe), and therefore I had to stop updating. Now it is time to get back into this - but I have not done it due to time constraints. It is not trival to push our changes to Emacs. - Emacs now uses bzr, which I am not familar with. I have installed bzr and pulled the Emacs trunk onto my machine - but I still need to test if I can actually commit using that setup. I wish Emacs had chosen git, because this is what I know reasonably well now, and because git is, from what I can tell, better. I think it's safe to say that git is better than bzr (significantly faster and more mature). From what I could glean panning through the emacs-dev mailing archives, the *only* reason that Emacs now uses bzr over git is because bzr is officially part of the GNU ecosystem. - There are a lot of issues that need to be taken care of. 1. The Emacs developers regularly make global changes o all code in Emacs, to make use of new features or to implement new conventions. I try to merge all these changes into my development version. Sometimes this is not possible, because the changes the Emacs developers introduce will not work for older versions of Emacs (like Emacs 21 or 22). Example: interactive-p and called-interactively. for what it's worth, I've been tracking the Emacs development version (updating ~1/week) and I haven't noticed incompatibilities or problems. 2. Because I am not as good with version control as I would like to be handwork has to be done, and I have been burned in the past several times because my changes reverted some changes made inside Emacs. This is a psychological barrier for me to go ahead and make the next update. Nevertheless, I am planning to update Emacs again - but I am not sure exactly when I will find the time. I think one approach may be to perform all of the merging against the git mirror of the Emacs repo (git://repo.or.cz/emacs.git), and then there should be an easy way to /git fast export/ /bzr fast import/ the changes over from the git mirror to the bar repo. If there is a volunteer who is willing to take charge of the synchronization with Emacs, this would be absolutely great. But it would have to be a dedicated and careful person, who is willing to patiently work through the issues. I wish I could help, but I honestly don't have the time such a commitment would require. Best -- Eric - Carsten -- Eric ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode - Carsten ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
[Orgmode] Plans for synching with Emacs dev sources?
Currently I'm using 6.33x, which is the version that comes with Emacs dev source code. I'll like to use a more recent version of org-mode, and so I ask if there are plans for upgrading Emacs' org-mode sources with the current release. If not, I'll use org-mode git sources, although this would complicate a bit the deployment across several machines. Thanks. ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Plans for synching with Emacs dev sources?
On 13.04.2010 22:15, Óscar Fuentes wrote: Currently I'm using 6.33x, which is the version that comes with Emacs dev source code. I'll like to use a more recent version of org-mode, and so I ask if there are plans for upgrading Emacs' org-mode sources with the current release. If not, I'll use org-mode git sources, although this would complicate a bit the deployment across several machines. AFAIK that happens whenever a new major version of emacs is released, which is very infrequently. Even if the next version of emacs would be just around the corner, you'd just find yourself in the situation of using a very outdated version again within a few weeks. However, deployment across several machines can be easy with git. My ~/.emacs.d is a git repository which contains all my emacs configuration and elisp library files. I have added org-mode as a submodule here, so after running git pull git submodule update on another machine, everything is in sync again. I use the org-babel approach to emacs configuration. In my startup.org, the first toplevel subtree contains code that finds out what machine it is running on by looking at the hostname and sets the variable jb/system. I have one toplevel subtree for common configuration and two for settings specific to one of my two machines. - Jan ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
Re: [Orgmode] Plans for synching with Emacs dev sources?
Jan Böcker jan.boec...@jboecker.de writes: On 13.04.2010 22:15, Óscar Fuentes wrote: Currently I'm using 6.33x, which is the version that comes with Emacs dev source code. I'll like to use a more recent version of org-mode, and so I ask if there are plans for upgrading Emacs' org-mode sources with the current release. If not, I'll use org-mode git sources, although this would complicate a bit the deployment across several machines. AFAIK that happens whenever a new major version of emacs is released, which is very infrequently. If this is the case, then should we start pushing new versions of Org-mode to the Emacs development repository at every *Org-mode* version bumb, rather than at every Emacs version bump? -- Eric ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
