From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some vc-dispatcher nitpicks Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:31 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20080516220831.GC23205@thyrsus.com> References: <20080516195554.GA23205@thyrsus.com> <3D93D0E7-511D-4D93-81DC-4CD3B5658395@pobox.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210975736 30595 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2008 22:08:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 22:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org, esr@snark.thyrsus.com To: John Paul Wallington Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 17 00:09:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jx877-0005KT-GS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 00:09:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jx86N-0000XX-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jx86K-0000XE-7Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jx86I-0000Wo-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54898 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jx86I-0000Wl-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:42404 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jx86F-0006fS-8w; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:27 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id C76918301FA; Fri, 16 May 2008 18:08:31 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D93D0E7-511D-4D93-81DC-4CD3B5658395@pobox.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97297 Archived-At: John Paul Wallington : > `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. -- Eric S. Raymond