From: Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: missing autoloads / (void-variable org-version)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:55:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120426135509.453fe598@vknecht-intel.unibw-hamburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vcknm43o.fsf@Rainer.invalid
> Since my Makefile branch was merged I've been getting flak for breaking
> certain setups. Now, the change didn't actually break them, but I did
> make (perhaps foolishly) a deliberate decision to make that particular
> breakage fatal rather than silent. It would be very easy to continue to
> paper over the breakage and pretend things are working when they're not.
> What irritates me greatly is that quite a few of the people that insist
> on this "solution" are the ones who would have to deal with the
> Heisenbugs thus introduced. So let me explain once more what is broken:
>
Hmm. I was biten by the makefile change but hopefully my report didn't
count as "flak".
I have absolutely no problem with any reasonable change in the makefile.
But your description of the situation before and after the makefile
change is not entirely correct.
Before: May be I had a broken setup and didn't know. Nevertheless it
worked.
After: May be conceptually your new makefile improved the build
process. But now my setup was broken. ;-)
And here comes the moment when you just wanted to do some routine work,
namely publish some notes for the upcoming lecture, normally a one
minute job, well set-up and tested. And all you get is some error. Time
is ticking away, next org-mode scheduled APPT in 5 min. We all know
this.
My guess: It was too easy to miss that action was required on a user's
side. May be a hint that make targets changed and that under some
circumstances make update could fail and a hint with some exclamation
marks that batch exporting now requires --load org-install.el and not
only --load org.el would have reduced mail traffic a lot. If there was
such a note at least I missed it.
Definitely keep up your work and improve the build process! I'm happy
to change my scripts if I know I need to and better still if I
understand why I should! (Thx for your explanation!)
Detlef
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-26 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-26 5:52 missing autoloads / (void-variable org-version) Achim Gratz
2012-04-26 10:23 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-04-26 16:06 ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-26 19:30 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-04-26 22:03 ` Bastien
2012-04-26 22:04 ` Bastien
2012-04-26 11:55 ` Detlef Steuer [this message]
2012-04-26 12:01 ` Martyn Jago
2012-04-26 16:14 ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-26 13:15 ` Bastien
2012-04-26 19:03 ` Achim Gratz
2012-04-26 21:54 ` Bastien
2012-04-29 9:53 ` Michael Sperber
2012-04-29 18:57 ` Achim Gratz
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