Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-13 Thread Samuel Wales
one thing about org that i think has been making it complex, in addition to number of features, is non-orthogonality. On 7/13/21, Tim Cross wrote: > > Tom Gillespie writes: > > [snip] > >> >> Once I wrap up the formal grammar for org, one of the next things I >> plan to work on is a clear

Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-13 Thread Tim Cross
Tom Gillespie writes: [snip] > > Once I wrap up the formal grammar for org, one of the next things I > plan to work on is a clear specification for org babel. This is > critical because so many of the suggestions that come in deal with > individuals' specific problems and thus fail to account

Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-13 Thread George Mauer
In implementing an extension you might consider doing it as a generalized form of what I did with ob-racket (https://github.com/togakangaroo/ob-racket ). I think it is best to rely on the import/require/include mechanism of the language you're using. Pretty much all of them support adjacent

Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-13 Thread Tom Gillespie
We have been receiving many new feature suggestions and requests coming in for org babel. I think that Tim's suggestion is the right one. Nearly all of these need to be implemented as an extension first and tested independently. Further, even if this is done, it should be clear that there is zero

Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-12 Thread Alexander Adolf
> On 9. Jul 2021, at 19:01, autofrettage wrote: > > Tim wrote: >> This could just be me, but recently, I'm becoming very concerned >> about the growth of additional features and options in org mode. > > Count me in. I have been mostly been hanging around in the shadows, but this > is serious

Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-09 Thread Berry, Charles
Tim, > On Jul 8, 2021, at 12:32 PM, Tim Cross wrote: > > My concern here is with the additional complexity. This is already a > somewhat complex aspect of org mode and the behaviour you describe can > effectively be done using noweb, although as you say, not as > declarative in style. This

Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-09 Thread autofrettage
Tim wrote: > This could just be me, but recently, I'm becoming very concerned > about the growth of additional features and options in org mode. Count me in. I have been mostly been hanging around in the shadows, but this is serious enough for me to wave a flag on the right side. I would go as

Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-09 Thread Maxim Nikulin
On 09/07/2021 02:32, Tim Cross wrote: Marko Schuetz-Schmuck writes: I would find it useful to have a more declarative way for specifying sequence. I imagine e.g. using "#+REQUIRES:" and "#+PROVIDES:" to capture dependency and then have the exporter compute a sequence satisfying these. I would

Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-09 Thread Stefan Nobis
Marko Schuetz-Schmuck writes: > I would find it useful to have a more declarative way for specifying > sequence. I imagine e.g. using "#+REQUIRES:" and "#+PROVIDES:" to > capture dependency and then have the exporter compute a sequence > satisfying these. I would say that declaring an explicit

Re: A requires/provides approach to linking source code blocks

2021-07-08 Thread Tim Cross
Marko Schuetz-Schmuck writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Dear All, > > AFAIU in the current support for literate programming I can establish > sequence between blocks by either tangling the entire file whereby the > blocks are written to the source code file in the sequence in which