Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 10:53:48AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for the patch.  Org mode is already part of Emacs; is a
>>> separate package for Org mode still needed in this case?
>>> 
>> I notice the release date is about 2 weeks ago, so development seems to
>> be continuing, not just as part of emacs. How recently was orgmode added
>> to emacs? If it was quite recently then could this still be useful to
>> people using Guix on a foreign distro?
>
> Org has been part of Emacs for quite a long time already. However, as
> you notice, Org shipped with Emacs (8.2.10) is lagging behind current
> stable release (8.3.5). As a data point, Org 8.3 was released more than
> one year ago, and 8.3.5 differs from 8.2.10 by 2700+ commit. More
> importantly, bugs reported on 8.2.10 are unlikely to be fixed.
>
> This patch adds Org current stable release. However, a new release is
> going to be shipped on Monday.

For the current stable release isn’t this the URL:
http://orgmode.org/org-8.3.5.tar.gz ?  Should we use this instead?

~~ Ricardo


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