Re: [POLL] Should we accept breaking changes to get rid of Org libraries that perform side effects when loading? (was: org-ctags land grab)

2023-03-28 Thread Ihor Radchenko
"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" writes: >> This is convincing. >> I am then CCing Bastien, as, despite the Elisp convention, following it >> will break https://bzg.fr/en/the-software-maintainers-pledge/ > > Isn’t the problem that the behavior changed — so that org-ctags gets > loaded in Emacs 30 but

Re: [POLL] Should we accept breaking changes to get rid of Org libraries that perform side effects when loading? (was: org-ctags land grab)

2023-03-27 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Ihor Radchenko writes: > Max Nikulin writes: > >>> Sure. This is not by itself a big deal. A number of Elisp libraries, >>> including built-in Emacs libraries are loaded with side effects. >> >> It is still violation of conventions: >> >> (info "(elisp) Coding Conventions") >>

[POLL] Should we accept breaking changes to get rid of Org libraries that perform side effects when loading? (was: org-ctags land grab)

2023-03-25 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Max Nikulin writes: >> Sure. This is not by itself a big deal. A number of Elisp libraries, >> including built-in Emacs libraries are loaded with side effects. > > It is still violation of conventions: > > (info "(elisp) Coding Conventions") >