From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Blandy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC-SVN problem Date: 10 May 2004 16:33:41 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040508013158.GB7312@fornax.collapsar.net> <878yg4yppi.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <20040508022659.GC7312@fornax.collapsar.net> <87d65exxnl.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084225717 19752 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 21:48:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:48:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 23:48:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNIdU-0005Ga-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 23:48:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNIdT-0003JD-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 23:48:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNISu-0003Kp-Ho for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNIRc-0002la-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:36:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNIR6-0002a9-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:36:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.187.233.31] (helo=mx1.redhat.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BNIPS-00020s-CQ; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4ALXu0m003561; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:33:56 -0400 Original-Received: from zenia.home.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4ALXsv09155; Mon, 10 May 2004 17:33:55 -0400 Original-To: John Paul Wallington In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23083 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23083 John Paul Wallington 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?