"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_...@web.de> writes: > Russell Adams <rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com> writes: > >> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 02:28:57PM +0300, Jarmo Hurri wrote: >>> 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. >> >> I actually never considered this might be packaged with Org. I always >> thought I had to install it separately, like my Latex distribution or >> PlantUML. > > Bundling this makes ditaa code blocks just work. Otherwise they won’t > work on every org-install.
The user still needs a Java runtime installed on his/her compute, so bundling ditaa.jar gives no guarantee at all that ditaa blocks will just work on every org-install. Instead a less informaed user, not used to run java programs, might be left with a not working application that fails silently or to the user incomprehensible error message. Better to point user to ditaa's sources/releases and inform it is optional with org. That way non-informed user will have to install java and ditaa and will at least have an idea where to look when things go wrong.
