Re: [O] Regression in `org-todo'

[Bastien]

Hi Nick,

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael Strey <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bastien,
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:03:04PM +0200, Bastien wrote:
>> > ...
>> > Please test against latest HEAD and tell me if your problem is still
>> > here, it shouldn't.
>>  
>> I confirm that the problem is solved.  Thank you!
>> 
>> It's interesting to see how a bug in a module from the contrib path can
>> cause strange behaviour of org-mode's core functions.
>> 
>
> There is no distinction between contrib and core. Once a module is
> loaded (wherever it comes from), it is part of emacs and can cause all
> kinds of damage: not just to org, but to the whole running emacs. It's
> the price one pays for the convenience of dynamically loading code.  You
> can avoid the danger by not loading modules, but then emacs becomes much
> less interesting: after all, the "e" stands for "extensible".

If the features provided by org-checklist.el are useful to many people, 
including them in core seems quite natural.  I don't use it myself, I'm
just wondering how people do.  But I agree with you here that we should
not move things into core inconsiderately.

-- 
 Bastien