From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: modularity, code for yourself and possibly others Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:31:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86wokiqznt.fsf@zoho.eu> <86wokd9xi6.fsf@zoho.eu> <867ecalam7.fsf@zoho.eu> <86bm1ljg4q.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="182247"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 06 00:32:31 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hCXNv-000lDU-Du for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:32:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hCXNu-0007iE-Bu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:32:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hCXNH-0007i7-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hCXNE-0008UY-5q; Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hCXND-0007Bl-4y; Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:31:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86bm1ljg4q.fsf@zoho.eu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Fri, 05 Apr 2019 05:16:37 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235010 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The question/challenge was/is how to avoid not > just sitting on your own huge personal Elisp > system, and be all content about that, but how > to make parts of it accessible to other people > without having them `require' tons of general > stuff you yourself have collected in different > files, some of them huge, for > practical reasons. In my experience, the only way to produce good results is to go over the code foir one functionality at a time, and rewrite it to be well-integrated with Emacs while modularly separated from the other functionalities of the contribution. I wish we had done this with the collection of diverse features which is Org mode. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)