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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: "Jambunathan K." <kjambunathan@gmail.com>,
	schulte eric <schulte.eric@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merging Org 7.8.02 before Emacs 24.1
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:44:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipl3g4jr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h1ncs1u.fsf@altern.org> (Bastien's message of "Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:54:05 +0100")

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> 2. New Babel syntax: Eric Schulte went through a rich discussion with
>    the Org Mode folks to simplify the syntax of code blocks.  Releasing
>    Emacs 24.1 with the old syntax would expose many users to bad habits
>    and force us to strongly suggest using latest Org instead of the one
>    that comes with Emacs.  No one would benefit from this.

Please provide some more information about the plan for Org development.
Suppose we merge 7.8.02 into trunk; what assurance would we have that,
within months, the Org team wouldn't switch tack and "strongly suggest"
the latest Org containing yet more features, rather than 7.8.02?  That
would defeat the purpose of a feature freeze.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-26  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-23 13:54 Merging Org 7.8.02 before Emacs 24.1 Bastien
2011-12-24  4:24 ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-24  7:31   ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-24  8:09     ` Bastien
2011-12-24  5:11 ` Leo
2011-12-26  7:44 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-12-26  8:55   ` Bastien
2011-12-27  7:19     ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-27 10:47       ` Lennart Borgman
2011-12-29  4:42     ` Chong Yidong
2011-12-31  8:27       ` Bastien
2011-12-31 10:39         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-31 11:41           ` Bastien
2011-12-31 17:17             ` Eric Schulte
2011-12-26 21:32   ` Eric Schulte
2011-12-29  4:36 ` Chong Yidong
2011-12-29 16:41   ` Bastien
2012-01-03 19:45   ` Bastien

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