Re: [PATCH] Add Emacs Org mode

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> 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.

Also, this is without the third party "contrib/" directory. We can
provide that also (license is still gpl3+) if needed.


Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou                                                0x80A93738