From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Emacs Org mode Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:17:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87d1l27fqf.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87bn0otwcm.fsf@saiph.selenimh> <87fupz7rdv.fsf@elephly.net> <87mvk7g041.fsf@saiph.selenimh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbN1A-0000C0-TO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 03:18:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbN14-0007YF-UQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 03:18:03 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:24394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbN14-0007YB-MF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 03:17:58 -0400 In-reply-to: <87mvk7g041.fsf@saiph.selenimh> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Nicolas Goaziou Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Hello, > > Efraim Flashner writes: > >> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 10:53:48AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> >>> Thank you for the patch. Org mode is already part of Emacs; is a >>> separate package for Org mode still needed in this case? >>> >> I notice the release date is about 2 weeks ago, so development seems to >> be continuing, not just as part of emacs. How recently was orgmode added >> to emacs? If it was quite recently then could this still be useful to >> people using Guix on a foreign distro? > > Org has been part of Emacs for quite a long time already. However, as > you notice, Org shipped with Emacs (8.2.10) is lagging behind current > stable release (8.3.5). As a data point, Org 8.3 was released more than > one year ago, and 8.3.5 differs from 8.2.10 by 2700+ commit. More > importantly, bugs reported on 8.2.10 are unlikely to be fixed. > > This patch adds Org current stable release. However, a new release is > going to be shipped on Monday. For the current stable release isn’t this the URL: http://orgmode.org/org-8.3.5.tar.gz ? Should we use this instead? ~~ Ricardo