Re: Permanently fix org versioning breakage during builds?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

>> Tentatively, it may even be done without affecting version check for
>> out-of-tree builds. See the attached patch.
>
> Could you explain the benefit of doing that?  Is the problem simply that
> some users building from emacs.git don't want to say "make bootstrap",
> or is it something else?

AFAIU, yes - some users do not want to do make bootstrap and do not like
that Org mode complains about mixed versions of .elc files.

> What will be the consequences for everyone else, if we were to install
> the proposed change?

Org mode may break in unexpected ways due to stale .elc that did not
update their macro expansions.

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