I did indeed start up by asking the org-toodledo maintainer. He suggested that it must be something funny in my org-setup (and pointed to previous issues like http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/59337 and http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/55412 - but neither of those seems to be my problem), so I thought I'd ask here. 

The work-around I mentioned seems to work perfectly well, I was just worried that there was some underlying problem in my setup that might cause additional problems at some point.

Giovanni Ridolfi writes:

> Da: Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net>
>
> Inviato: Lunedì 3 Settembre 2012 5:46
>
>> Since updating to org 7.9, I've had an odd problem with another package that depends on org-mode (org-toodledo). 
>
>> It reports that it can't find org-version.
>
> So the problem is in org-toodledo. Did you ask its maintainer?
>
>
>> The following work-around patches the problem, 
>
>
>> (require 'org-version)
>> (setq org-version (org-release))
>
>> but I was wondering how to "really" solve it:
>
> hack org-toodledo.
>
> cheers,
> Giovanni


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