Hi Achim, Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes:
> Bastien writes: >> So I'm seriously questioning the value of having Org as an ELPA >> package and I'm thinking of removing this possibility until Emacs >> package install is fixed (Achim is working on this, but it looks >> like the change will not be in Emacs anytime soon.) > > I've to admit that I've had that thought too, but it seems that doing > this would perhaps even lower the attention that Emacs' maintainers give > to that problem. This is using Org users as hostages, I don't want to do this. > Until they admit any change into Emacs we could still > work around with advising require and salvage the ELPA users (I still > think we should do it anyway since a number of users will keep using > older Emacs versions). Yes, it is a hairy hack. It is :) We should remove advices, not add other ones, especially if the hack hides a bigger problem for Emacs. I will ping the community at large to have a better idea on how such a change would affect the community. -- Bastien
