Re: From latest maint/master, no need to (require 'org-install)

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Eric Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Eric Fraga wrote:
> >> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/git/org-mode")
> >
> > Why that one?
> 
> Ahh, that's a bit of historical garbage.  There was a point a while back
> where org-install seemed to have lisp/org-xxx paths and the easiest fix
> was to add the root to the list of paths.  The problem was fixed fairly
> quickly but I forgot to remove my temporary fix.
> 
> >> What should I or could I remove from this?
> >
> > What I do is:
> >
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> >   (when (locate-library "org-install")
> >     (require 'org-install))
> > #+end_src
> 
> Actually, I now have
> 
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/git/org-mode/lisp")
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/git/org-mode/contrib/lisp/")
> (require 'org)
> #+end_src
> 
> with a number of other =require= calls for specific ob- and org-e-
> packages.  This seems to work just fine.
> 

Note however that this way, the contrib directory will be found before
the main lisp directory and that may cause occasional problems. This was
recently discussed in this thread:

     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/60929/focus=61131

Nick

> My question now is whether I should replace the =(require 'org)= by
> =(require 'org-loaddefs)= which seems to be the way that Emacs is moving
> for packages?
> 
> Thanks,
> eric
> 
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