Re: Dependencies of Org

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't think we reached a clear resolution about the cases where
> where Org suggests loading something else.  That practice is not
> necessarily a problem -- loading some unrelated free program is fine.
> It is a problem when the code depended on is nonfree, or if it ought
> to be part of Emacs (which could mean ELPA) but it isn't.
>
> Are there still cases like this?

I think the manual is fine, now. The conversion from "htmlize" to
"htmfontify" has stalled, however. I asked for some guidance about it
a few weeks ago. I now wait for an answer.

One potential issue I can think of is Babel libraries, i.e., libraries
used to execute source code in an Org buffer. Typically, such a library
relies on an external Elisp library, e.g., "ob-scheme" relies on
"geiser", "ob-shen" relies on "inf-shen", "ob-R" on "ess", and so on.
These external libraries are free, but I don't know if they qualify as
"ought to be part of Emacs". I assume not, since Emacs cannot provide
a mode for every language out there.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou