From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: policy, recommendations regarding `cl-*' Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:01:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83pq59hl5w.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348606886 9123 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2012 21:01:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 25 23:01:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TGcG1-0001C2-7u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:01:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46704 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGcFw-0000DQ-54 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGcFt-0000DK-Ot for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:01:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGcFs-00042M-RU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:01:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:54337) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGcFs-00042F-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MAX00I00BFD7X00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:01:19 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MAX00I3MBQ6AT00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:01:19 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153543 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:31:17 -0700 > > I would expect to see a clear explanation, with recommendations, of migration > and multiple-version support - in NEWS, preferably. That is normal for What's > New, README, or Release Changes documents for software. > > For example, if I currently have (loop...), what do you recommend? Replace it > by this? > > (if (fboundp 'cl-loop) (cl-loop...) (loop...)) > > And likewise for all the rest. > > (Yes, I know that this is only a deprecation now, and not yet desupport. I > would nevertheless like to know what you recommend for supporting multiple Emacs > versions.) I think, as long as you need to support versions of Emacs without cl-lib, just leave the code as it was, i.e. use 'loop' in the above example.