Re: little problem with installing org with el-get

From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: yagnesh raghava yakkala <yagneshmsc@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: little problem with installing org with el-get
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:09:12 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81lj4sgowv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3q4dy58.fsf@gmail.com> (yagnesh raghava yakkala's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:48:03 +0900")

Unless you specifically want to use el-get there are various options
available. 

See 'Keeping Current' section of http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php for
various options.

Since you say you are a noob I suggest that you use the Package
Manager - ELPA.

Jambunathan K.

yagnesh raghava yakkala <yagneshmsc@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear list,
>
> I recently dove into emacs world because of org. This is my first mail
> to list so let me thank to Org-mode , Carsten and all contributors.
>
> Now to the problem,
>
> I am trying to follow the Org-mode from the git head using el-get. how
> ever its not working as intended. even after el-get-update and
> el-get-init , i see org-version is set to 7.1 (I am using emacs from
> git repo few days ago built) instead of 7.3 release_7.3xxx dirty.
>
> I think this is nothing to do with my /init.el/. As a work around I
> removed org folder from the emacs installation. After doing so it is
> showing the correct version which is installed.
>
> I dont know this is a problem with el-get. is anybody using el-get to
> maintain your org and other elisp code.
>
> in my init.el I have el-get-sources setup as the following.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> (setq el-get-sources
>       '(
> 	(:name magit
>                :after (lambda () (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-z") 'magit-status)))
>
> 	(:name org-mode
> 	       :type git
> 	       :url "git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git"
> 	       :info "doc"
> 	       :build ("make clean" "make" "make doc")
> 	       :load-path ("lisp" "contrib/lisp")
> 	       :features org-install)
> 	(:name smex
> 	       :type git
> 	       :url "http://github.com/nonsequitur/smex.git")
>
> 	(:name el-get
> 	       :type git
> 	       :url "git://github.com/dimitri/el-get.git"
> 	       :features el-get
> 	       :load    "el-get.el")
> 	))
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>         
> Apologies if my terminology and language confuses you.
>  
> Regards.,
> Yagnesh
>
> PS: I am almost a noob to elisp and even to programming. so please
> bear with me. I am sending this from /gnus/ for the first time hoping to
> reach the list.
>
>
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