Hi, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> I am aware that in emacs 26, there are plans to change the way in how > certain packages can be moved out of the emacs master and still can be > installed seamlessly using the tarballs of those. Indeed. > Currently the org-mode version in emacs master is 8.2.10 and that it too > old (> 2 years, ref: http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/refs/). The > current stable version of org-mode is 9.0.4 (released yesterday). > > At the time of releasing emacs 25.1, the org-mode in emacs master could > have been synced up with the then 1.5 years newer and stable version of org > (probably 8.3.5 or 8.3.6). But that got missed due to some reason. *AFAIR* it was too late and would thus not have received enough test from the general Emacs community. > As a precaution that that does not repeat when emacs 26.x is released, > should the org version in emacs master be synced with the now latest stable > org version 9.0.4? Yes. > If we are able the release the new packaging method in emacs 26.x, then we > can remove org from emacs master completely, but if not, then at least as > backup we have a newer org version to go out with that release. What is the current status? I am a bit confused about the policy at this point. I'm happy to try to update master to 9.0.4, but I was somehow under the impression that we were waiting for a solution to include ELPA packages in the Emacs tarball. Thanks, Rasmus -- However beautiful the theory, one should occasionally look at the evidence
