RE: org-assert-version considered harmful

["Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org>]

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Hello,

I found this recent thread researching why my strategy for staying abreast with org head had started failing with invalid-function "org-assert-version"

My strategy had been to build org initially with


` cd ~/.emacs.d && git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs/org-mode.git &&   cd org-mode && make autoloads && make`

and ensure this clone of org was picked up in my "~/.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp by including the following in my .init.el very early (right after bootstrapping the package system and use-package):

(use-package
  :pin manual
  :load-path "~/.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp"
)

Then, when I occasionally wished to update org, I would

`cd ~/.emacs.d/org-mode && git pull && make autoloads && make`

Recently I started getting errors invalid-function "org-assert-version".

Upon cursory reading of this thread I guessed that I could fix them by adding a `make clean` to my update mantra.

It worked.

Am I advised to do otherwise?  Is there a best/better practice?

Thanks,

~Malcolm

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