Re: Moving some lisp/ob-*.el files to org-contrib - your advice?

[Bastien]

Hi Victor,

"Victor A. Stoichita" <victor@svictor.net> writes:

> Le 03 May 2021, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> a écrit :
>> I suggest a criterium for keeping ob*.el files in Org could be that
>> the extension is known by Emacs _or_ that the supported language is
>> well-established.
>
> I happen to be an active user of ob-lilypond. Lilypond is certainly
> peripheral to the world of programming languages. It is well established
> and active as an equivalent of LaTeX for music though ([1][2][3]).
> It comes with built-in support for Emacs [4].

Agreed, thanks for the references!

> I see no reason to not move ob-lilypond to org-contrib. I understand
> that only few of us use it these days. I can’t stand up as a maintainer
> since my Lisp skills and my knowledge of org-mode are quite insufficient
> for that. I was happy to see that someone submitted a patch for
> ob-lilypond in January. I hope that by the time something breaks I’ll be
> able to submit a patch myself.

I hope too.

PS: Also, in general, we are not talking about shutting down a
feature: ob-*.el packages in org-contrib.git continue to be available.

-- 
 Bastien