From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: John Paul Wallington <jpw@pobox.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, esr@snark.thyrsus.com
Subject: Re: Some vc-dispatcher nitpicks
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080516220831.GC23205@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D93D0E7-511D-4D93-81DC-4CD3B5658395@pobox.com>
John Paul Wallington <jpw@pobox.com>:
> `gensym' is a function rather than a macro and it apparently doesn't
> have a corresponding compiler macro. Use or loading of cl at runtime by
> packages that are installed in the Emacs sources is verboten.
Hmmm...can anyone explain why that is? It should be docunted somewhere.
> Is it okay to install the following patch?
Yes, that looks good. Thanks. It might be possible to remove the eval-compile
of cl, as well, once you've done this; you'd be doing me a favor if you checked.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-16 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-16 18:25 Some vc-dispatcher nitpicks Glenn Morris
2008-05-16 19:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-05-16 21:11 ` John Paul Wallington
2008-05-16 22:08 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2008-05-17 10:42 ` John Paul Wallington
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