So in version 7.8 and earlier, org-version is both a variable and a
function. The function is not useful to coders because it displays the
version string as a message:
(org-version)
"Org-mode version 7.8.03 (release_7.8.03.437.g60ca.dirty)"
org-version
"7.8.03"
I used org-version as a variable because there was an incompatibility
between 7.7 and 7.8 for the function org-export-remove-or-extract-drawers.
So, what is the proper way to get the version number in 7.9? It seems
awkward to me that all clients would have to require something other
than just "org" to get the version number, but I can live with that.
What I don't want to do, though, is mess around with testing for the
existence of various functions and variables just to figure out where to
get the version number from.
Why not just keep the variable org-version around just like in 7.8 and
earlier?
Otherwise, can someone please post a code snippet that gets me the
version string "7.8.03" that will work with 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9?
...cj
On 9/4/12 6:13 AM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:
Da: Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com>
Inviato: Martedì 4 Settembre 2012 14:04
Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.rido...@yahoo.it> wrote:
Would you please try to add (require 'org-install) instead of (require 'org)
and see if org-toodledo works?
As mentioned in one of the above threads, the version of a package is pretty
fundamental
and I'd expect it to be provided by the base require.
The variable org-version *is indeed provided* but not in the file your code
expects it.
Is it? I can only find a function named org-version, not a variable.
Hi, Nick,
you're right, therfore, obviously ;-) I was wrong.
The function is org-version and it gets its arguments from the variables
org-release
and
org-git-version
defined in the file lisp/org-version.el
thanks for pointing it up.
cheers,
Giovanni
