Re: Brand new clojure support in Emacs ;-)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> - there's also so overhead of keeping the GitHub repo and the code in Emacs 
>> in sync
>
> Ihor and others should correct me, but what overhead do you have in
> mind?  We already have a few packages that are basically developed
> outside of Emacs and only merged with Emacs from time to time, so you
> will not be the first package to go that way.

Backporting upstream commits might be slightly more manual compared to
applying patches specifically submitted for Org. Otherwise, no downside
- you are getting code improvements from Elisp experts behind Emacs
after all :) For example, AFAIR, we got conversion to lexical binding
largely contributed by Emacs devs.

More details in https://orgmode.org/worg/org-maintenance.html#emacs-sync

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