From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, cedet-eieio@lists.sourceforge.net,
"Eric M. Ludlam" <eric@siege-engine.com>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up the EIEIO namespace
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:49:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87621o84pd.fsf@engster.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk3q5f0yi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:26:41 -0500")
Stefan Monnier writes:
>> I meant a compat package in CEDET upstream, so that it can run on older
>> Emacsen if we stop shipping our own EIEIO version. As long as we're
>> obsolete-aliasing the old names, I don't see why we would need a compat
>> package in Emacs?
>
> Only if we can hope to get rid of those aliases soon, because we'd
> rather not have those compatibility aliases use up the namespace even
> when all the packages in use have been updated to use the "clean" names.
Well, you've started aliasing `class-name' in your patch, so I thought
that was the plan.
> For the CL package we solved this problem by leaving the "cl.el" package
> as a "compatibility package" only required by the packages that haven't
> been updated to use the new names. CL was so widely used that it will
> take a *long* time to get rid of all uses of the old names, whereas
> EIEIO's use is not as pervasive, so we don't necessarily have to do the
> same for it.
> This said, maybe it would make sense to move "eieio.el" to "cl-eieio.el"
> (with clean names, autoloaded from cl-lib) and then make eieio.el
> into a simple compatibility package full of aliases.
What to do with the other files like eieio-base then? We cannot rename
it to cl-eieio-base.el because of name clashes, but it also provides
part of the public, CLOS-like functions.
To summarize the options so far:
1) Prefix everything with eieio- and be done with it. Create obsolete
aliases for the old names and get rid of them "soon" (Emacs
25?). Alternatively, create an eieio-compat package with aliases for
the old names.
2) Prefix everything with eieio- and create cl- aliases for the
CLOS-like functionality. Those aliases may be defined in
2a) the eieio* files itself, or
2b) in a separate cl-whatever.el file.
As in 1), define obsolete aliases for the old names or use a compat
package.
3) Rename eieio to cl-eieio with clean names (i.e., eieio- and
cl-prefixes), autoloaded from cl-lib, and make eieio.el a simple
compatibility package full of aliases.
I'm currently pretty much tied on "2b)+compat package" and 3).
-David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-19 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-10 18:10 Cleaning up the EIEIO namespace Stefan Monnier
2013-02-12 22:10 ` David Engster
2013-02-12 23:05 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-13 6:44 ` David Engster
2013-02-13 14:51 ` Drew Adams
2013-02-13 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-13 16:31 ` David Engster
2013-02-14 1:11 ` [cedet-eieio] " Eric M. Ludlam
2013-02-14 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-14 14:00 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-02-14 21:17 ` David Engster
2013-02-14 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-18 21:32 ` David Engster
2013-02-19 3:26 ` [cedet-eieio] " Stefan Monnier
2013-02-19 19:49 ` David Engster [this message]
2013-02-19 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-20 23:41 ` [cedet-eieio] " Eric M. Ludlam
2013-03-29 10:04 ` Vitalie Spinu
2013-03-29 14:20 ` Drew Adams
2013-03-29 21:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-14 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-14 21:28 ` David Engster
2013-02-14 22:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-14 22:26 ` David Engster
2013-02-17 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-18 20:55 ` David Engster
2013-02-19 3:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-13 3:13 ` [cedet-eieio] " Eric M. Ludlam
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