Re: Obsolete org contrib package

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:

> I just ran into org-ebib.el, a file that's part of org-contrib.
> I noticed that it uses functions from Ebib that were renamed pretty
> much exactly two years ago. (They're internal functions and thus got
> an extra dash.) This could in principle be fixed by changing the
> relevant function calls in org-ebib.el, but as it happens I'm about to
> push some changes to Ebib that will make it less straightorward to fix
> org-ebib.el.

OK.

So you mean there is no equivalent to both

  (ebib-cur-entry-key)

and

  (ebib-db-get-field-value 'title key ebib-cur-db)

?

> So perhaps it would be best to simply remove org-ebib.el from
> org-contrib? It doesn't seem to have been used by anyone the past two
> years and all it does is define a function to store an org link to an
> Ebib entry, which, IIUC, is done in a completely different way in Org
> 9.0.

"org-ebib.el" is already compatible with Org 9.0.

I'm Cc'ing the author. Ideally this library should be updated to new
Ebib and moved to some ELPA.

If Grégoire doesn't want to take care of it and no one volunteers to
maintain that file, we can remove it.

We should at least wait for a week in any case.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou