bug#73098: setopt float warning unexpected

[Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>]

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Perhaps an alternative macro `setopt-relaxed"? Documentation should suggest
contacting package authors to request improvements (it's a very slow
process to get misspecified packages updated and not all authors mean what
they say when they themselves don't use the customize system--this group
must know this all too well).

On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 11:28 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  73098@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:11:40 +0200
> >
> > Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I'm suggesting that there will be noise from people who convert from a
> > > working (setq some-package-option 2) to (setopt some-package-option
> > > 2). This is not a request to change the elisp type system, it is a
> > > request to consider if setopt's / customize internals should be
> > > relaxed to the equivalent of #'= for these simple cases.
> >
> > How about adding an option letting the user disable the type checking of
> > some options?
>
> Like what?  Would we accept, for example, a string where the type is
> 'symbol'?  Or any value where type is 'boolean'?
>
> And I'm also not sure we want this: presumably, if the defcustom's
> author specified a type, they meant it, no?
>
> Which is why I asked for opinions (but for now got only yours).
>
> Stefan, WDYT?
>

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