From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Package cl is deprecated
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:55:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6PO+4M2GmhP6src5D0b2ON5UoXa8njYxm4t2NpNaq3D+_nQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO6PR10MB547348E5AEC5F8D4EECCFEB9F3EA9@CO6PR10MB5473.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:36 PM Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > Then it's from a package and you need to identify it.
>
> To be clear about one point -
>
> You don't _need_ to identify it or change it. You can
> likely do so without creating problems, if you want to.
>
> Deprecation does not mean desupport. Library `cl.el' is
> still _supported_. At some future point it might become
> desupported (probably will) - but it's supported now.
>
> In addition, if you find (require 'cl) in some 3rd-party
> library that you use, what do you intend to do about that?
>
> You can notify the library maintainers, so they can decide
> what to do or inform you about what you might do. Or you
> can modify that library source code yourself, to replace
> that with (require 'cl-lib).
>
> But besides not _needing_ to do any such thing, be aware
> that a 3rd-party library may use such code intentionally,
> for backward compatibility (even if you don't need that,
> the library might want it, for other users on older Emacs
> versions).
>
> So if it's about a 3rd-party library, you might want to
> check with its maintainers.
>
> If it's a (require 'cl) in vanilla Emacs code then you
> can file a bug report / enhancement request, to let the
> Emacs maintainers know about it: `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
>
> In any case, if you report it to whomever its maintainers
> are, even if it gets "fixed" right away, unless you use
> the most recent source code available (e.g. build Emacs
> yourself, if the fix is in Emacs itself), you'll need to
> wait some.
>
> Remember, this is a byte-compiler warning message. It's
> not an error message. There's really nothing that you
> _need_ to fix. But if the warning really bothers you then...
Got it. Thank you for your explanation and systematic comments.
Regards,
Hongyi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-28 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-28 9:23 Package cl is deprecated Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 9:28 ` Jean Louis
2021-07-28 9:33 ` Thibaut Verron
2021-07-28 9:46 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 9:54 ` Thibaut Verron
2021-07-28 10:03 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-07-28 11:20 ` Leo Butler
2021-07-28 13:41 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-28 14:07 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 14:21 ` Leo Butler
2021-07-28 14:48 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 2:18 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-29 6:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 7:22 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 2:27 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-29 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-29 14:26 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-30 3:04 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-30 4:03 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-30 5:33 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-30 15:56 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-31 0:35 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-31 0:58 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-31 21:15 ` Drew Adams
2021-07-31 22:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-31 22:59 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-01 1:42 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 1:41 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-31 1:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-31 4:06 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-31 4:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-07-31 5:18 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-31 5:26 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-31 21:09 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-01 1:36 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 2:28 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-01 2:46 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 2:49 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-31 1:04 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-31 21:14 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-01 1:55 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 2:30 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-01 4:13 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 5:16 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-01 23:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-08-02 0:50 ` Hongyi Zhao
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2021-08-02 1:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
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2021-08-02 2:05 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-02 2:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-08-02 2:25 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2021-08-02 2:42 ` Hongyi Zhao
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2021-08-02 3:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-08-02 19:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-02 4:29 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-02 19:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-02 21:05 ` gnutls and `erc-tls' (was: Re: [External] : Re: Package cl is deprecated) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-02 22:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-03 1:16 ` [External] : Re: Package cl is deprecated Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-03 1:29 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-03 1:31 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-03 1:36 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-03 1:59 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-02 21:33 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-03 1:14 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-03 3:56 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-02 1:03 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-02 1:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-08-02 2:18 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 4:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-08-01 4:58 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 5:08 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 5:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 5:56 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 6:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 6:36 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 7:15 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-01 7:57 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-01 13:23 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-30 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-28 13:03 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 13:23 ` Thibaut Verron
2021-07-28 13:33 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 13:36 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 14:04 ` Thibaut Verron
2021-07-28 14:15 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 14:23 ` Thibaut Verron
2021-07-28 14:25 ` Thibaut Verron
2021-07-28 14:30 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 14:36 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-28 14:55 ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-07-29 15:26 ` Arthur Miller
2021-07-30 2:23 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-07-28 18:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-07-29 2:38 ` Hongyi Zhao
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