Re: Tips for upgrading emacs

[Tim Johnson <thjmmj15@gmail.com>]

On 10/30/23 7:19 PM, Bob Newell wrote:
>> Can others reading this contribute any tips for things to do after
>> upgrading emacs?
> The one and only "must do" that I've found is to go to
> /usr/share/emacs/29.1/lisp (substitute new version for 29.1)
> and 'sudo rm -Rf org'.
>
> This is because I get the latest org from the package manager
> and having a mixed installation is a problem.  So this is not
> required if you just want to use the org version as delivered
> with the new emacs version.
>
> Generally if you keep your elisp packages up to date you
> shouldn't have a problem.  Even then, elisp is backward
> compatible.  I'm sure there are edge cases and exceptions but
> I've never had to do much of anything when upgrading emacs,
> which in any case for me is not frequent as I don't stay
> bleeding edge.
>
Thanks Bob. Drew Adams offers the following advice in his
help-fns+ package:
;;    Note: As of Emacs 24.4, byte-compiling this file in one Emacs
;;    version and using the compiled file in another Emacs version
;;    does not work.

Forgetting his advice has caused me headaches.

Would it be reasonable to run byte-compile against all installed packages
after an upgrade?
cheers

-- 
Tim
thjmmj15@gmail.com