Re: [ELPA] New package: jami-bot and org-jami-bot

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If org-jami-bot is specifically for doing something on top of Org, I
  > see no problem in installing it as it is.

The problem is that that package restricts a general facility
(communicating data with Jami) by implementing it to be usable only
with Org format.

There is no reason for it to have that limitation.  It should be
implemented to work with a more general interface.  People could
then implement support for Org format on that base.

The right thing to do with org-jami-bot is to generalize it to remove
this limit, rename it, and install that instead.

Emacs already shows the effects of many years of the bad practice of
integrating various new features specifically with Org, not with Emacs
generally.  As a result, they are available only to those who use Org
mode.  There are no efforts to generalize these features so they are
not limited to Org.

We must therefore insist that every new feature XYZ which CAN be
modularly separate from Org, be implemented as modularly separate from
Org.  People who want to use XYZ and Org together should be able to do
so -- but people who want to use the one without the other should also
be able to do so.

In other words, if XYZ doesn't inherently _have_ to be limited to Org,
it must not be limited to Org.

Please join me in insisting on this modularity.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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