Re: Permanently fix org versioning breakage during builds?

["T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>]

make bootstrap is a far heavier hammer than \rm lisp/org/*.elc


Stefan Kangas writes:
 > Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
 > 
 > > Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
 > >
 > >> What do you say to disabling the mechanism for version checks in Org as
 > >> distributed with Emacs?  Nothing will be lost, since AFAIU the check
 > >> exists for the sake of conflicting Org installations set in place by
 > >> package managers rather than Emacs itself.
 > >
 > > Considering the existing stance that it is ok to break things
 > > occasionally due to stale macros when running make on Emacs git
 > > repository, I see no problem disabling these checks for built-in Org
 > > mode.
 > >
 > > Tentatively, it may even be done without affecting version check for
 > > out-of-tree builds. See the attached patch.
 > 
 > Could you explain the benefit of doing that?  Is the problem simply that
 > some users building from emacs.git don't want to say "make bootstrap",
 > or is it something else?
 > 
 > What will be the consequences for everyone else, if we were to install
 > the proposed change?

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