Re: Obsolete org contrib package

[daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com>]

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On 11/08/16 13:23, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:
> 
>> I just ran into org-ebib.el, a file that's part of org-contrib.
>> I noticed that it uses functions from Ebib that were renamed pretty
>> much exactly two years ago. (They're internal functions and thus got
>> an extra dash.) This could in principle be fixed by changing the
>> relevant function calls in org-ebib.el, but as it happens I'm about to
>> push some changes to Ebib that will make it less straightorward to fix
>> org-ebib.el.
> 
> OK.
> 
> So you mean there is no equivalent to both
> 
>   (ebib-cur-entry-key)
> 
> and
> 
>   (ebib-db-get-field-value 'title key ebib-cur-db)
> 
> ?
> 
>> So perhaps it would be best to simply remove org-ebib.el from
>> org-contrib? It doesn't seem to have been used by anyone the past two
>> years and all it does is define a function to store an org link to an
>> Ebib entry, which, IIUC, is done in a completely different way in Org
>> 9.0.
> 
> "org-ebib.el" is already compatible with Org 9.0.
> 
> I'm Cc'ing the author. Ideally this library should be updated to new
> Ebib and moved to some ELPA.
> 
> If Grégoire doesn't want to take care of it and no one volunteers to
> maintain that file, we can remove it.

I don't use this package anymore.
If anyone uses it, s/he take over it, otherwise we can just remove it
from org-contrib.

Best,

> 
> We should at least wait for a week in any case.
> 
> Regards,
> 


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