Re: Org release 8.2.5g (minor release from maint)

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>>>> I have the impression that cl-lib is (was?) frowned upon by upstream for
>>>> packages that are included in the emacs distribution. But it's only
>>>> a vague recollection at this point: am I wrong? am I thinking of
>>>> something else common-lispish?
>>>
>>> I thought that the point of cl-lib was so that packages like Org-mode
>>> and gnus would stop re-implementing pieces of the cl package.  I could
>>> easily be wrong.
>>
>> I remembered seeing something on emacs-devel about this, and just found
>> this statement from Stefan Monnier from a few days ago:
>>
>>
>> Note that the main motivation behind the move to cl-lib is so that it's
>> perfectly acceptable to use cl-lib functions (since they don't pollute
>> the global namespace any more).  So if you prefer to avoid cl-lib
>> functions, that's fine, but if you want to use them, that's perfectly
>> fine as well.
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>>
>> Interpret as you will!
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for putting me right!

Great, so should Org-mode require cl-lib and stop supporting the
following functions?

- org-block
- org-count
- org-every
- org-find-if
- org-reduce
- org-remove-if
- org-remove-if-not
- org-return
- org-some
- org-sort
- org-sublist

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