Re: Noisy byte compilation on master

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:31:39 -0500
> 
> Not sure what to do about these: CEDET needs to work with older
> Emascsen, so we can't change the code to use the cl-defmethod thingies yet.
> But in the Emacs master code, `defmethod' is a compatibility layer which
> introduces notable inefficiencies, so we do want to mark those as obsolete.
> 
> Maybe we should keep those as "not quite obsolete yet" and only add the
> obsolescence warnings when we get to Emacs-26?  Or else, (define and)
> add extra annotations in those CEDET files to silence those warnings?

I don't have anything intelligent to say about this, except that the
amount of these messages is unbearably large.  Please find some way of
shutting them up.

> >   Warning: Using brain-dead macro `mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer'!
> >   utf7.el: `mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer' is an obsolete macro (as of 25.1).
> 
> This one is also problematic: I've been trying to reduce the use of this
> macro for several years now, but I don't know the Gnus code enough to do
> much further progress.  Yet, this macro is sufficiently ill-defined that
> I think most of its uses probably suffer from latent bugs.  So spewing
> warnings during compilation sounds like the right thing to do (tho
> I see they're duplicated: one from the macro itself and one from the
> obsolescence warning, so we can drop the "Warning:" message).

Again, the problem is the sheer number of those.