On Apr 12, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
yes, that made it work.
I did not choose to use emacs 21 - it is debian 4 default version.
Actually I misused my debain system to try to get a "make" for my
windows xp where I cannot get anything to work natively from git.
Doing a "make autoloads" I try to use the lisp directory under windows.
Hope that will work.
That should work.
With the old org "system" I could simply use the lisp files as given
but with the new structure I have to create the org-install.el file
which is not working under windows.
Well, this is not fully correct.
First of all, by the "old" system, I guess you mean the distribution
files in the form of zip or tar archives? These will still contain the
org-install.el file and in this way this is not changed at all from the
old system. The git repo is the bleeding edge development version. For
technical reasons I cannot distribute a derived file like org-install.el
with this repository. And to fully use the git repo you will indeed
need a system that can run a few basic development tools, like make -
not asking too much in my opinion.
We have not had a release now for a while because the splitting
operation is a major undertaking. Once that is done, I will have more
regular releases again, and then you can use the release files to stay
close to the development version.
Furthermore, I do have a plan B for using the git repo, and that is
simply doing (require 'org) instead of (require org-install). This is
not the preferred method because it does load the rather large Org
system into Emacs each time you start emacs. The preferred method is to
use (require 'org-install) for a distribution, and *nothing* when Org is
distributed with Emacs, because there it is fully autoloaded.
However, there are enough people who have never read the installation
instructions close enough to know that in a downloaed version (require
org-install) is the correct method to activate Org. Also,
unfortunately, the excellent tutorial by David O'Toole, for many people
the entry gate into Org, explains to use (require 'org). Therefore I am
trying to set things up in a way that also this will work. If it does
not, you can report this as a bug and I will fix it.
- Carsten
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