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From: Anthony Cowley <acowley@gmail.com>
To: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: trivial software engineering'ish question: switching org's
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:40:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8EF57190-0AF9-4D80-AAC6-66B008C95EF3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <705757.1616348671@apollo2.minshall.org>



> On Mar 21, 2021, at 1:46 PM, Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> hi.  i occasionally want to switch from the org package to a git
> version, then back again.  and, i want to avoid the dread "mixed
> installation".
> 
> i'm wondering is there a way people do this other than simply
> installing/deleting the package version?
> 
> cheers, Greg
> 

The nix package manager is outstanding for these uses. You can have two versions of emacs — each with a different version of org — side by side, or switch between them without needing to re-byte compile anything.

Anthony



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-22  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-21 17:44 trivial software engineering'ish question: switching org's Greg Minshall
2021-03-21 21:35 ` Tim Cross
2021-03-22  1:43   ` Gustav Wikström
2021-03-22  7:41     ` Greg Minshall
2021-03-24  2:56     ` straight.el and org info pages? Greg Minshall
2021-03-24  4:49       ` Gustav Wikström
2021-03-24  6:25         ` Greg Minshall
2021-03-24  5:02       ` Richard Kim
2021-03-24  6:23         ` Greg Minshall
2021-03-22  0:40 ` Anthony Cowley [this message]
2021-03-22 12:06 ` trivial software engineering'ish question: switching org's Maxim Nikulin
2021-03-24  5:12   ` Greg Minshall

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