Re: The fate of ditaa.jar (9.4.5.)

[Christopher Dimech]

If having the source is not as easy as getting a link that is dependable,
then it got to be bundled.  I rather use a version that works than nothing
at all.  I have used ditaa in org for the documentation of texinfo.

> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 6:41 AM
> From: "Nick Dokos" <ndokos@gmail.com>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: The fate of ditaa.jar (9.4.5.)
>
> Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri@iki.fi> writes:
> 
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I pulled the latest master and noticed that contrib has been moved into
> > a separate repository. I also cloned this contrib repository, but can
> > not find the file
> >
> > scripts/ditaa.jar
> >
> > in the repo. In fact, there is no directory scripts in the repo.
> >
> > The documentation in the latest master states that
> >
> > Stathis Sideris wrote the ‘ditaa.jar’ ASCII to PNG converter that is now
> > packaged into the org-contrib repository.
> >
> > How should I proceed? Should I build this separately
> >
> > https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa
> 
> You don't need to build it: it's available in the release area
> 
> https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa/releases
> 
> >
> > or will it still be included into contrib?
> 
> In general, I think it's a better idea to point to the canonical sources
> and document how to integrate it into Org mode, than bundle things like
> that, but I have no idea how things are going to go. I'm sure there will
> be some problems that will need fixing one way or another.
> 
> -- 
> Nick
> 
> "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
> invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler
> 
> 
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