Re: [O] org mode moves to GNU emacs core

[Phillip Lord]

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Uwe,
>
> Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I am not sure whether I understand that discussion in emacs dev
>> correctly. Will orgmode be moved into the GNU emacs try as it was done
>> with gnus?
>
> for the record, I would be in favor of this.  Why?
>
> - Less installation headaches
> - Less maintainance and backward-compatibility headaches
> - Possibility of having etc/TODO in Emacs using org-mode
> - Attracting Org developers/contributors to Emacs repo
>
> As a maintainer, I don't see any advantage of having Org
> maintained as an ELPA package.


The advantage should be that it allows an independent upgrade cycle for
org from the long cycle of Emacs. I presume you do see this as an
advantage? The issue is, surely, that it's too much of a PITA for the
advantage that you gain?

If that's true, I'm interested in which bits are a PITA. Is it
fundementally because of ELPA? That is, the latest version of org-mode
has to support more than one version of Emacs? Or, is it having two
version repos, with all the merging?

Phil