Re: Permanently fix org versioning breakage during builds?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> org-assert-version is the best we came up with.
>> If you know a concrete idea how to solve it differently, feel free to
>> share it.
>
> Why not just let things break when incompatible changes in Org macros
> are installed?  We do that for any other Lisp file in the repository
> that defines macros used by other files.  Why cannot Org do the same
> when it is compiled as part of the Emacs build?

Org can. However, breaking Emacs builds is not the main purpose of
org-assert-version. The bigger problem I am trying to solve is obscure
breakage when people upgrade Org mode or mix built-in and newer Org mode
in their init files.

> IOW, why not simply disable the version test as part of the Emacs
> build, and leave the breakage for those cases where (a) changes in
> macros are really incompatible and (b) they affect Org code that is
> being run as part of the build?

That's what the patch I shared is about. But I still need to check that
the patch will not break detection of loading mixed Org versions from
init.el.

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