Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> The function-complete ry has been put at
> https://gitlab.com/mattiase/ry for the time being. It should now be
> entirely compatible, including support for `rx-constituents'. Your
> proposed `literal' was also added, which was instructive; I needed to
> know how it would fit in.

Cool, I'll take a look.

> Noam, unless the consensus is that ry is unequivocally as good or
> better than rx, you could just as well apply your patch (suitably
> fixed up). Even if later replaced, there is nothing fundamentally
> wrong with the design; let's not hold it hostage.

Sure.  Here's the patch with regexp-quote change to literal, and
rx--compile-to-lisp renamed.  I'll wait a bit more and push this weekend
if there are no more comments.