Re: VC-SVN problem

[Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>]

John Paul Wallington <jpw@gnu.org> writes:

> > So, I'd like to fix this in vc-svn.el, in the simplest way: by adding
> > (require 'cl) so that 'list*' is available.
> 
> Just checking: do you mean (eval-when-compile (require 'cl)) ?
> 
> (The cl package defines a compiler macro for `list*', and the elisp
> manual's coding conventions say not to load cl at runtime.)

I've gotta be missing something obvious:

What do you do if your package actually uses functions from CL, not
just macros?  Then CL must be loaded at runtime.  Are such packages
simply unsuitable for inclusion in the Emacs distribution?