idlip / checkorg.github.io

Testing repo to build a static site with org-mode

Org Website Generation Experiments

I'm preparing a new series about this for System Crafters, running some experiments here to see how reliably things work across Emacs versions.

Conclusions

• Everything generates fine with Emacs 24.5 and up
• Installing latest Org works with Emacs 25.3 and up
• Emacs 24.1 can't install packages due to old SSL bug (my assumption)

Ensuring Dependencies

A simple function that can be included to ensure that a package is installed. This might not actually be necessary if you can tolerate "package already installed" messages in the script output.

(defun ensure-package (package)
  (unless (package-installed-p package)
    (package-install package)))

Ensuring Latest Org

If needed, here's how you can make sure the latest org-mode gets installed:

;; Ensure latest org-mode gets installed
(assq-delete-all 'org package--builtins)
(when (boundp 'org-package--builtin-versions)
  (assq-delete-all 'org package--builtin-versions))

(package-install 'org)