From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can't find org-version?
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:50:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wr0711ms.fsf@altern.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3w7r67t.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:55:02 +0200")
Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:
> The variable org-version was an internal one that has been removed. The
> org-toodledo package should not rely on internal variables, but rather
> use the official interface, in this case the function org-version.
In the real world, developers rely on a set of stable expectations.
Being able to check against `org-version' as a *variable* is one of
them, and a very stable one. IMO, it is counter-productive to deceive
this expectation and to ask developers to read org.el to know how they
can check against Org's version.
The way `org-version' is set internally is another topic, and I'm glad
you finally come up with something that relies only on make/git. But
geee... this has been a long and painful way to go, and I don't count
how many users are/were confused about this.
The original motivation for this was to spare the maintainer the sweat
of possible merge conflicts when syncing with Emacs... which were just
very unlikly to happen anyway.
So, let's focus more on the users, and less on conceptual purity.
--
Bastien
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-03 3:46 can't find org-version? Benjamin Slade
2012-09-03 7:23 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2012-09-03 13:30 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-09-03 14:45 ` Benjamin Slade
2012-09-03 14:48 ` Christopher J. White
2012-09-04 11:14 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2012-09-04 11:55 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-09-04 12:04 ` Nick Dokos
2012-09-04 13:13 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2012-09-04 14:34 ` Christopher J. White
2012-09-04 14:59 ` Nick Dokos
2012-09-04 17:15 ` Nick Dokos
2012-09-04 20:03 ` Christopher J. White
2012-09-06 17:31 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-06 17:43 ` Bastien
2012-09-06 18:09 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-06 18:20 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-06 19:14 ` Bastien
2012-09-06 6:55 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-06 17:50 ` Bastien [this message]
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