Re: [Bug] org-version returns empty string when called uninteractively [9.4]

[Nick Dokos]

Jean-Léon HENRY <rabidax@protonmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded org to 9.4.4 and org-version is returning an empty string 
> when called
> unineractively. More precisely
>
> I started emacs with : emacs -Q -l minimal-org.el
> Contents of minimal-org.el :
>
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> ;;; Minimal setup to load latest `org-mode'.
>
> ;; Activate debugging.
> (setq debug-on-error t
>       debug-on-signal nil
>       debug-on-quit nil)
>
> ;; Add latest Org mode to load path.
> (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name 
> "/home/me/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.4.4/"))
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>
> Then did :
> M-x org-version
>
> Result :
> "Org mode version  ( @ /home/me/.emacs.d/elpa/org-9.4.4/)"
>
> But when evaluated non-interactively :
> (org-version)
>
> Results :
> ""
>
> In my regular set-up, this breaks version checks used in other packages : 
> (version<
> (org-version) "9.0") for example is called. This gives you the following 
> backtrace :
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid version syntax: ‘’ (must start 
> with a number)
> ")
>   signal(error ("Invalid version syntax: ‘’ (must start with a number)"))
>   error("Invalid version syntax: `%s' (must start with a number)" "")
>   version-to-list("")
>   version<("" "9.0")
> [...]
>
> Thanks for your help
>

It does not do that for me:

   (org-version)
   "9.4.4"

-- 
Nick

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