Re: org-assert-version considered harmful

[Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

> Currently, main and bugfix branches both have (org-version) ; => "9.5.5"
> As a result, the assertion will not catch the important case when users
> mix Org version installed via package.el and Org version installed from
> git.
>
> Should we use the next planned release version number on main branch as
> a convention?

I'd rather use the value set in the ";; Version:" header.

It is "9.5.5" in the bugfix branch and "9.6-dev" on the main branch.

I'm not even sure we should keep `org-git-version' at all: if we need
to distinguish between pre-release states, it seems easy enough to set
the header as 9.6rc1, 9.6rc2, etc.

WDYT?

PS: I have a vague memory that Stefan suggested to look at how things
are done on bbdb.el:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/lisp/bbdb.el?h=externals/bbdb#n4750

If we can remove the complex Make machinery we have right now, I'd be
very happy.  One reason for this machinery was to avoid merge conflict
(thanks to getting rid of the Version: header), but we do have these
conflicts (now that the header is back) and they are easy to solve.

-- 
 Bastien