Re: Permanently fix org versioning breakage during builds?

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

in that case, perhaps we shouldn't bbe installing a ew version in
Emacs this often.



Ihor Radchenko writes:
 > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
 > 
 > >> Org mode may break in unexpected ways due to stale .elc that did not
 > >> update their macro expansions.
 > >
 > > Yes.  That could happen even as part of the build, if the manuals
 > > whose sources are *.org files need to be rebuilt.
 > >
 > > But such breakage happens at times anyway, when some macros change in
 > > incompatible ways and files that have the old versions of those macros
 > > compiled into them are not recompiled.  It isn't anything new for
 > > people who regularly update from Git and rebuild Emacs.
 > 
 > The main problem is that with org-assert-version, "from time to time"
 > becomes more frequent as the breakage is guaranteed every time a new
 > version of Org is installed into Emacs tree.
 > 
 > Since we release a new minor Org version every few weeks, the breakage
 > happens every few weeks.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
 > Org mode contributor,
 > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
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