Re: modularity, code for yourself and possibly others

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The question/challenge was/is how to avoid not
  > just sitting on your own huge personal Elisp
  > system, and be all content about that, but how
  > to make parts of it accessible to other people
  > without having them `require' tons of general
  > stuff you yourself have collected in different
  > files, some of them huge, for
  > practical reasons.

In my experience, the only way to produce good results is to go over
the code foir one functionality at a time, and rewrite it to be
well-integrated with Emacs while modularly separated from the other
functionalities of the contribution.

I wish we had done this with the collection of diverse features
which is Org mode.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)