Re: Old versions

["David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@dd-b.net>]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 05:53, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:
> "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@dd-b.net> writes:
>
>>>>> And where can I find a copy?
>>>>
>>>> How about here?:
>>>>
>>>> http://orgmode.org/org-6.36c.zip
>>
>> I can't find any POINTER to that anywhere on the site;
>
> Please, you should have searched *also* the mailing
> list archieve: (e.g. in gmane: "older org version" ).
> This string is easier than mine, isn't it?

Yeah, I thought this was a bit familiar.  Thing is, last time around never
reached a successful conclusion.  I just got tired of the runaround and
gave up.

> Then you would have found that:
>
>   On 2010-12-03 22:17:31 GMT (21 weeks, 4 days, ago)
>
>   David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b <at> dd-b.net> wrote:
>
>   " Given the two URLs, I have now deduced the pattern
>     for downloading older distributions :-) .
>     I still can't see a list of what's available, but the
>     ones mentioned publicly that I've tried have all
>     existed.  (It's just the obvious:
>     http://orgmode.org/org-<version>.tar.gz )
>
>     Thanks for finding the confirmation that 6.36c is
>     supposed to work with Emacs 21."
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/34524/focus=34525
>
>> However, it doesn't make or make install with the Emacs 21.4.1 install
>> on
>> my web host (engl.dreamhost.com, to be explicit; running Linux).
> why do you need to install it with make?
>
> Org mode works even if you only:
>
> 1. Make a directory: ~/org/
> 2. unzip/ untar the file org-YOUR-version.zipTar
> 3. configure org in your .emacs:
>    (setq load-path (cons "~/org/lisp" load-path))
> 4. for info:
>    (add-to-list 'Info-default-directory-list "~/org/doc")
>    [source: http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.htm]
> 5. Read and follow the manual
>    eg: add the correct line  (require 'org) or
>    (require 'org-install). I don't remeber.

I'm trying to bring that one system into conformance with about 8 other
systems I use org on; getting the config in my .emacs right is simple
(it's already in the script that customizes my standard .emacs file for a
particular system, which I check out from my Subversion repository onto
each new system).

It bugs me to have to hack around the standard install procedure, but I
suppose that's my problem.

> This will *not* byte compile your files but I use not compiled
> files and it's fine for me.
>
> If you want to byte compile use this brute force approach:
>
> $ emacs -e "(progn (byte-force-recompile \"~/org/lisp\")
>             (byte-force-recompile \"~/org/lisp\" ))

I wonder if that will work?  I think the problem is that byte-compile
doesn't work when there's run-time code to avoid the execution of things
that don't exist in the current version, since the byte-compile has to
convert everything.

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