Re: Org babel API (was: [FR] Display stderr contents after executing shell blocks (even when stdout :results output is requested) (was: Org 9.6-pre and Bash sessions))

[Tim Cross]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> For me, this is another symptom of our need to define a clearer model
>> for babel processes so that we can get some consistency across the
>> board. Such a model would likely also make it easier for people to
>> develop new babel back ends. We may even need 2 models, one for
>> interactive/repl based back ends and one for non-interactive/scripted
>> back ends. 
>
> We do have two models already.
> We have some small bits documented in
> https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/index.html
>
> Generally, the defaults are implemented in ob-core.el.
> Session API is in ob-comint.el. Shell command API is in ob-eval.el.
>
>> The 2 big questions I see are "What should be defaults be?" and "How do
>> we handle the options without adding lots of new switches or suffering
>> an option permutation blow out?".
>
> I am sorry, but I do not fully understand what you are talking about.
> Which defaults are you referring to?

In general, all the defaults for babel blocks, but morfe specifically
here, deffault handling for stderr.