RE: Working Around for cl-count

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> >> >> Versions of Emacs less than version 24.2 complain about 
> >> >> the lack of `cl-count`.
> >> >
> >> > In older versions, `cl-count' is called `count'.
> >> > Use something like this:
> >> > (if (fboundp 'cl-count) #'cl-count #'count)
> >> 
> >> Or use the `cl-lib' package that's on GNU ELPA.
> >
> > You can't do that if your code that calls `cl-count' is 
> > used by others.
> >
> > What are you going to do?  Tell users of your code who have 
> > Emacs < 24.2 that they must download `cl-lib' from GNU ELPA
> > and put it in their `load-path'?  Or download it yourself
> > and bundle that package with your code?
> 
> You publish your code as package to one of the ELPA 
> repositories and add "cl-lib" as one of the dependencies.

So instead of fixing this at the source-code level, with just a few chars of
Lisp, you try to solve the problem at the distribution level: "Just use GNU
ELPA".

Have hammer, will see nails...