Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Xue Fuqiao
On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:29:23 -0500 Nick Dokos wrote: > Bastien wrote: > > Xue Fuqiao writes: > > > Sounds fine to me, because my Internet connection is very slow > > > (especially to Savannah). It is often a pain for me to perform a `bzr > > > pull', since it takes a long time. > > Well, tha

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Dmitry Gutov
On 08.03.2013 18:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: From: Dmitry Gutov Cc: l...@metapensiero.it, joa...@verona.se, emacs-de...@gnu.org, b...@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, sdl@gmail.com Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:18:19 +0400 I like the idea of stripping big bundled packages (like org, gnus, ce

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Eli Zaretskii writes: > Not even that: the release candidate already reports its version as > 24.3, so all is needed is to rename the tarball and upload to > ftp.gnu.org. I stand corrected.

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Dmitry Gutov
Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: joa...@verona.se >> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:15:07 +0100 >> Cc: b...@gnu.org, l...@metapensiero.it, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, >> Leo Liu , emacs-de...@gnu.org >> >> - Emacs "trunk" could be stripped of all but the bare essentials to >> achieve bootstrap. >> - di

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Dmitry Gutov
Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Dmitry Gutov >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii , b...@gnu.org, l...@metapensiero.it, >> emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Leo Liu , emacs-de...@gnu.org >> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:25:16 +0400 >> >> joa...@verona.se writes: >> > Just a small reminder of the idea Stefan sometimes dr

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Dmitry Gutov
joa...@verona.se writes: > Just a small reminder of the idea Stefan sometimes drops in these > discussions: > - Emacs "trunk" could be stripped of all but the bare essentials to > achieve bootstrap. I like the idea of stripping big bundled packages (like org, gnus, cedet, maybe even tramp, if that

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Achim Gratz > Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:34:42 +0100 > Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > > In any case, doing the built-in packages this way (or something similar) > takes a lot of unecessary churn and merges out of the release process > and I would think that would be a clear advantage to every

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Nick Dokos
Jambunathan K wrote: > > So two questions: > > > > o is the savannah repo http only? > > > > o and if so, it used to be the case that http was much slower than git - > > is that still the case? > > Bzr user here. May be try one of these? > > , https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs >

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Jambunathan K
Nick Dokos writes: > Bastien wrote: > >> Jambunathan K writes: >> >> > Nick Dokos writes: >> > >> >> There *is* a git mirror for emacs: git://repo.or.cz/emacs.git. >> > >> > This one is from savannah >> > >> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git >> >> Great minds think alike!!

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Nick Dokos
Bastien wrote: > Jambunathan K writes: > > > Nick Dokos writes: > > > >> There *is* a git mirror for emacs: git://repo.or.cz/emacs.git. > > > > This one is from savannah > > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git > > Great minds think alike!! :) > > -- > Bastien > Thanks

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Bastien
Jambunathan K writes: > Nick Dokos writes: > >> There *is* a git mirror for emacs: git://repo.or.cz/emacs.git. > > This one is from savannah > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git Great minds think alike!! :) -- Bastien

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Bastien
Hi Nick, Nick Dokos writes: > Bastien wrote: > >> Hi Xue, >> >> Xue Fuqiao writes: >> >> > Sounds fine to me, because my Internet connection is very slow >> > (especially to Savannah). It is often a pain for me to perform a `bzr >> > pull', since it takes a long time. >> >> Well, that's mo

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Jambunathan K
Nick Dokos writes: > There *is* a git mirror for emacs: git://repo.or.cz/emacs.git. This one is from savannah http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git --

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Nick Dokos
Bastien wrote: > Hi Xue, > > Xue Fuqiao writes: > > > Sounds fine to me, because my Internet connection is very slow > > (especially to Savannah). It is often a pain for me to perform a `bzr > > pull', since it takes a long time. > > Well, that's more an argument for switching to hg or git >

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Bastien
Hi Xue, Xue Fuqiao writes: > Sounds fine to me, because my Internet connection is very slow > (especially to Savannah). It is often a pain for me to perform a `bzr > pull', since it takes a long time. Well, that's more an argument for switching to hg or git for Emacs repo, not really for trimm

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Xue Fuqiao
On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:15:07 +0100 joa...@verona.se wrote: > Just a small reminder of the idea Stefan sometimes drops in these > discussions: > - Emacs "trunk" could be stripped of all but the bare essentials to > achieve bootstrap. > - distribution tarballs could be made from trunk+elpa. > Since

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Dmitry Gutov > Cc: l...@metapensiero.it, joa...@verona.se, emacs-de...@gnu.org, > b...@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, sdl@gmail.com > Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:18:19 +0400 > > >> I like the idea of stripping big bundled packages (like org, gnus, > >> cedet, maybe even tramp, if

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Dmitry Gutov > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , b...@gnu.org, l...@metapensiero.it, > emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Leo Liu , emacs-de...@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:25:16 +0400 > > joa...@verona.se writes: > > Just a small reminder of the idea Stefan sometimes drops in these > > discussions: >

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: joa...@verona.se > Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:15:07 +0100 > Cc: b...@gnu.org, l...@metapensiero.it, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, > Leo Liu , emacs-de...@gnu.org > > - Emacs "trunk" could be stripped of all but the bare essentials to > achieve bootstrap. > - distribution tarballs could be ma

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
joa...@verona.se writes: > Just a small reminder of the idea Stefan sometimes drops in these > discussions: > - Emacs "trunk" could be stripped of all but the bare essentials to > achieve bootstrap. I don't know that I'd go so far as to include all of CC-mode, but more than once I've missed s

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Bastien
joa...@verona.se writes: > Just a small reminder of the idea Stefan sometimes drops in these > discussions: > - Emacs "trunk" could be stripped of all but the bare essentials to > achieve bootstrap. > - distribution tarballs could be made from trunk+elpa. PS: This is similar to my plan of creatin

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Bastien
Hi Joakim, joa...@verona.se writes: > Just a small reminder of the idea Stefan sometimes drops in these > discussions: > - Emacs "trunk" could be stripped of all but the bare essentials to > achieve bootstrap. > - distribution tarballs could be made from trunk+elpa. > > Since I dont do releases f

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread joakim
Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Leo Liu >> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:16:57 +0800 >> Cc: emacs-de...@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, >> Lele Gaifax >> >> Bundling [org-mode] in emacs doesn't help anybody. > > You never had to work for an organization whose network is closed to > outside wor

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Bastien
Thanks all for the answers, quite educational to me (at least). -- Bastien

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:27:56 +0900 > Cc: Lele Gaifax , emacs-de...@gnu.org, > emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Bastien > > [...] in a release candidate the release engineer proposes to make > exactly one change before release: remove "rc" from the version > string

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:47:57 +0800 > From: Xue Fuqiao > Cc: Bastien , emacs-de...@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, > Lele Gaifax > > On 03/08/2013 02:40 PM, Bastien wrote: > > I missed the distinction between "pretest" and "release candidate". > > What's the difference between "pretes

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Leo Liu > Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:16:57 +0800 > Cc: emacs-de...@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, > Lele Gaifax > > Bundling [org-mode] in emacs doesn't help anybody. You never had to work for an organization whose network is closed to outside world, did you? In those situations,

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Xue Fuqiao writes: > On 03/08/2013 02:40 PM, Bastien wrote: > > I missed the distinction between "pretest" and "release candidate". > > What's the difference between "pretest" and "release candidate"? A release candidate may be considered to be a kind of pretest. The difference (as Glenn al

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Bastien writes: > I find it hard to draw a clear line between regressions and bugs, > especially since Org 7.9.x versions are way behind the current Org > master branch. A regression is a feature that is missing, incomplete, or buggy in the current HEAD that was present, complete, and correct

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Xue Fuqiao
On 03/08/2013 03:37 PM, Bastien wrote: I think org-mode is better in ELPA, a better distribution channel than the core for things like org-mode. Bundling it in emacs doesn't help anybody. I strongly think otherwise: Emacs needs a good outline and editing tool. outline.el is not usable enough

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Bastien
Xue Fuqiao writes: > On 03/08/2013 02:40 PM, Bastien wrote: >> I missed the distinction between "pretest" and "release candidate". > > What's the difference between "pretest" and "release candidate"? Doesn't > the latter belong to the former? The rc1/rc1.1 was released on the > "pretest" directo

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Xue Fuqiao
On 03/08/2013 02:40 PM, Bastien wrote: I missed the distinction between "pretest" and "release candidate". What's the difference between "pretest" and "release candidate"? Doesn't the latter belong to the former? The rc1/rc1.1 was released on the "pretest" directory. -- Best regards, Xue F

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Leo Liu
On 2013-03-08 15:37 +0800, Bastien wrote: > I strongly think otherwise: Emacs needs a good outline and editing > tool. outline.el is not usable enough and I can see no other Emacs > tool than Org-mode for exporting to HTML/LaTeX/ODT easily. > > I understand the temptation in terms of maintainance,

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Bastien
Leo Liu writes: > On 2013-03-08 14:40 +0800, Bastien wrote: >> I find it hard to draw a clear line between regressions and bugs, >> especially since Org 7.9.x versions are way behind the current Org >> master branch. > > I think org-mode is better in ELPA, a better distribution channel than > the

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Leo Liu
On 2013-03-08 14:40 +0800, Bastien wrote: > I find it hard to draw a clear line between regressions and bugs, > especially since Org 7.9.x versions are way behind the current Org > master branch. I think org-mode is better in ELPA, a better distribution channel than the core for things like org-mo

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Bastien
Glenn Morris writes: >> I assumed it was okay to fix bugs after the last pretest, is it so? > > No, it is not ok, and I don't know why you would think it is. I missed the distinction between "pretest" and "release candidate". > The reason for this policy is (obviously) to prevent inadvertently

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Glenn Morris
Bastien wrote: > Glenn Morris writes: > >> Assuming this is a recent regression, then if anyone from Org wants this >> fixed in Emacs 24.3, they should investigate this very quickly and >> suggest the _minimum_ change. > > The minimal fix is attached. > > The other attachment is the full patch I

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Bastien
Glenn Morris writes: > Assuming this is a recent regression, then if anyone from Org wants this > fixed in Emacs 24.3, they should investigate this very quickly and > suggest the _minimum_ change. The minimal fix is attached. The other attachment is the full patch I wanted to apply to merge Org

Re: [O] org-export raises stringp nil error

2013-03-07 Thread Glenn Morris
Assuming this is a recent regression, then if anyone from Org wants this fixed in Emacs 24.3, they should investigate this very quickly and suggest the _minimum_ change. See also the possibly related, unanswered http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-03/msg00028.html Lele Gaifax wr