Re: Why am I being told to use "straight.el"?

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 21/04/2023 16:42, Colin Baxter wrote:
> 
> After an initial 'pull', 'make clean' and 'make',
...
> However, I did initially
> receive the following warning:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>   It is recommended to put
> 
>      (straight-use-package 'org)
> 
>     early in the config.  Ideally, right after the straight.el
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

You got this warning because it is assumed that straight.el users are 
mostly affected by the mixed compile/mixed load issue.

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mixed-install

Did you get this warning when you restarted emacs?

Next time please, save result of "ls -ltr lisp/". It sounds like some 
issue with dependencies in makefiles. Perhaps something was wrong with 
org-version.el, org-macs.el, org-loaddefs.el and .elc files.

Another way to get mixed versions issue is to put some require, e.g.

(require 'org-protocol)

before adding the directory to `load-path'. There are long threads on 
errors due to compiling ELPA package from Emacs when old Org version is 
already loaded.