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Re: [Orgmode] Re: 7.01 & Xemacs 21.4.22: decompose-region is not known


From: Nick Dokos
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Re: 7.01 & Xemacs 21.4.22: decompose-region is not known
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:48:21 -0400

Giovanni Ridolfi <address@hidden> wrote:

> >>  > AFAIK, that's the latest *released* version: 
> >>  > releases. If you don't want to use git to get the latest development
> >>  > version, you can get a tarball of it (or any version really) from
> >> 
> >> Ok I was told differently on this list but ok.
> 
> Not only on this list, but also in the home-page !
> >
> > I may be mistaken: 
> 
> Yes, you are ;). Or, at least, you /should/ be wrong ;-)
> 
> > But there are occasional hiccups and sometimes the tarballs
> > get out of sync, e.g. most recently at the end of September - see
> >
> >          http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31131
> 
> Yes :-( 
> 
> >
> > Currently I see both org-latest.zip and org-latest.tar.gz dated
> > 2010-10-16 01:00 
> 
> That's strange. I downloaded org-latest.zip on the 20th October
> and the commit was: 
> Org-mode version 7.01trans commit-4cd56cfa7b93902544acb32848e36ee4004239a3
> And it seemed to me that was the latest.
> 

I don't know: I still see Oct 16 dates, but I don't have time to investigate
carefully.

> > - and, btw, the top-level directory in both archives is
> > org-mode-web, which, according to Bastien in the above thread, is wrong
> > and should be fixed.
> 
> Yes, I did some black magic to have a working 
> org-latest.zip(org-mode/blah-blah)
> 
> >
> >>    >     http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git
> >>    > Choose which snapshot you want and click the tar.gz or zip link at
> >>    > the right end of the corresponding line
> 
> Uhhh nice! Thanks, Nick, I've learned something new today.
> 

Thanks are due Jambunathan K. (iirc): he pointed that out a couple
of days ago. I'm just a conduit :-)

> Bastien, would it be possible that the link in the homepage:
> 
> For people who cannot use git we provide <a href="org-latest.zip">zip</a> 
> or <a href="org-latest.tar.gz">tar.gz</a> snapshot release 
> files updated each day
> and corresponding to the latest git version.
> 
> will point to such page? 
> 
> E.g.
> 
> For people who cannot use git, the
> snapshot release  files, 
> corresponding to the latest git version,
> are provided <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode.git";>in the git
> repository</a>.  Choose which snapshot you want, presumably
> the first line in the "shortlog" section and click the 
> tar.gz or zip link at the right end.
> 
> Pros: we will not have the problems of syncing 
> 
> Cons: we will not have the file  http://orgmode.org/org-latest.tar.gz
>       one can download directly, in a script...
>       but they have to use the browser.
> 

Maybe keep org-latest.{tgz,zip} on orgmode.org, but add a mention
of the other method just in case there are syncing problems with the
tarballs.

Nick



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