On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:16 PM John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Ah. I always wondered about that since the change is reported for 9.0 >> but it's in effect for me on: >> >> Org-mode version 8.3.4 (release_8.3.4-753-gda4db33 @ ~/.elisp/org/lisp/) >> >> But I've obviously built from git. Simple case would be for Andrea to >> just try it and let us know :) Other than that, I'd defer to Nicholas >> to say whether or not this should be going on. > > > If you just git clone, you clone the bleeding-edge master branch with awesome > new features :) You are on master branch built recently. > > > I agree that the version number is confusing for people building from the > master branch. It's figuratively 9.0+, but org-version still gives > 8.3.4-xxx-gxxxxxxx.
Indeed, I didn't know that. I agree, if it's basically a 9.0-prerelease analog, knowing that 9.0 features are building (via the version number) would be nice to know. Or maybe that's common knowledge other than in my head :) Thanks, John > > It would have been nice if the master branch built version showed a different > numerical version number than the one on the maint branch. Or probably some > prefix like dev/master? Nicolas? > -- > > -- > Kaushal Modi