From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC-SVN problem Date: 09 May 2004 21:01:15 +0200 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 1084129775 22021 80.91.224.253 (9 May 2004 19:09:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 19:09:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun May 09 21:09:30 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 1BMtg2-0006r5-00 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 21:09:30 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BMtg2-000265-00 for ; Sun, 09 May 2004 21:09:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMtbP-0008UI-0x for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 15:04:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMtb0-0008Tt-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 15:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BMtaT-0008NC-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 15:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMtYB-0006vE-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2004 15:01:26 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BMtY5-0002hR-1L; Sun, 09 May 2004 15:01:17 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:22988 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22988 Richard Stallman 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. > > Please don't do that. It's not acceptable for any package in Emacs to > do that. The CL functions are not standard parts of the Emacs Lisp > language, and the user may have defined the same names in some other > way. Usually (eval-when-compile '(require 'cl)) should be sufficient, and it is what is recommended for that functionality in the Elisp manual. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum