Bastien <b...@gnu.org> writes: > Speaking of which... IIRC one of the reasons for not having > > (defconst org-version "9.1.12") > > in org.el was to having merge conflicts.
I don't remember this issue. > Does having "Version: 9.1.12" in org.el means we can switch back > to having (defconst org-version "9.1.12") there as well? > > Could it fix the very annoying "I-don't-know-what-Org-version-is > running-within-my-Emacs" issue? > > I'm aware that M-x org-version RET is more informative today, > but I also see just too many people struggling with the current > way of setting the version. I don't understand what you mean by "setting the version". I probably do not understand the problem you are describing to its full extent, but I think Version: keyword (necessary for ELPA) and `org-version' are enough. Yet another way to defined the Org version would be asking for trouble.
