Re: Should we just start dumping cl-lib?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:24:30 -0700
> 
> > Did you miss my further message where I said we should probably
> > preload cl-lib, because many popular commands in a fresh session load
> > it anyway?
> 
> I did, sorry. Anyway, let's wait until we have a new maintainer and
> release Emacs 25 before making this change, but it sounds like we
> definitely want to proceed in the direction of dumping cl-lib.

I see no reason to wait until Emacs 25.1 is released.  The release
date is sufficiently far away for us to be able to do that ASAP.

> Trying to do it locally, I ran into a very weird problem: functions we
> call at compile time, like cl--defalias, raise errors when called:  the
> bytecode vector ends up being the number zero instead of the expected
> string. Turning cl--defalias and similar functions into macros makes the
> build work, but it doesn't solve the real problem.

If you have time, please try fixing this.

Thanks.