Torsten Wagner writes:
> I didn't follow this thread in detail. But shouldn't it be enough to symlink
> e.g. org-icalendar against ox-icalendar. As far as I understood emacs would
> prioritize those local symlinks over the system wide installation. This would
> be a temporary solution until a new emacs release.

Why temporary? What about people installing Org 8.x on older Emacsen?

> Actually, under Linux, this is a pretty common way to bend
> dependencies towards the newest version of a lib.  Not sure for
> windows users.

Won't work on MS-DOS, and on Windows it is highly problematic for
various reasons (they're called "junctions" there; you need
administrator privileges to create them, and the upcoming Emacs 24.3
will be the first version to even support them).

-David

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