RE: org-assert-version considered harmful

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

>> It should not be necessary and it does not happen on my side (as you can
> >> imagine, I re-compile very often).
> >
> > Perhap's my issue stems from the particular versions of org I was upgrading between and/or (earlier) poor management of multiple contending org versions (e.g. git head v. melpa v. system).
> 
> That might be possible. Because Emacs does not properly update macro
> definitions in the already compiled files.
> 
> See https://orgmode.org/list/jwvsfkv5s7l.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

That is exactly the message which suggested my workaround of inserting a `make clean` into my manta.  Thanks for the confirmation!
  
> 
> However, the current, more forgiving, version of org-assert-version
> should only complain when upgrading to different Org version. make clean
> is a good measure even during normal upgrades though. Because of the
> Emacs limitation.
> 
> > ```
> > cd ~/.emacs.d/org-mode && git pull && make clean && make autoloads && make PERL5LIB=
> > ```
> >
> > And then relaunch emacs, where it gets picked up due to:
> >
> > ```
> > (use-package org ;org-plus-contrib ; instead of org-mode
> > :pin manual 
> > :load-path "~/.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp"
> > ...
> > )
> > ```
> >
> > ... which occurs very early in my init file (just after bootstrapping package system and latest use-package).
> >
> > So, I've got (again) a working strategy. 
> >
> > I'm really wondering if all this is needlessly complex.
> 
> The above should be safe.
> Whatever straight.el does also work for me as long as I put Org loading
> early in my init.el.

Good to have confirmation here again.  Thanks Ihor!