"ESF" == Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: ESF> On Monday, 3 Jul 2017 at 08:33, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> But the release cycles are very different, so in order to have always >> the latest stable org package, I need to compile and install the whole >> GNU emacs beast. I thought the whole idea of a package system is to >> avoid this headache.
ESF> I agree. I like tracking org development but would not be at all keen ESF> on tracking emacs in the same way. I was actually quite disappointed ESF> when gnus went into emacs master as I can no longer easily play with any ESF> experimental branches etc. Same here. I stopped trying to debug some gnus issues when I could no longer easily compile and install new versions independently of emacs. (I use a port of emacs for macOS, so I cannot simply recompile emacs. I need to wait until the changes are incorporated in that port.) It would be too bad if the same happened with org mode. Alan -- OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7 Monthly Athmospheric CO₂, Mauna Loa Obs. 2017-05: 409.65, 2016-05: 407.70
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