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bug#16998: with-slots should expand to cl-symbol-macrolet
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#16998: with-slots should expand to cl-symbol-macrolet |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 14:46:27 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Yes, I'm sorry about causing this confusion.
No need to be sorry. It's not an urgent task anyway.
> I tried to remove it, but it turned out to be more difficult than it
> looked, mostly because of the changes we made w.r.t. the EDE security
> fix, which introduced type-checking for slots. Older EIEIO versions in
> Emacs <23.4 don't have that, which make them pretty much incompatible
> with current CEDET, which is why we still have it upstream.
Aha, so the rumor was wrong ;-)
> However, I think that there's no problem to "officially" state that
> EIEIO development now happens in Emacs, and that the version in CEDET
> will not get updated anymore, but will remain there as a fallback
> library for older Emacsen (similar to what Gnus does).
That would be fine by me. I just want to avoid having two divergent
versions, so if the version bundled with CEDET is frozen it's fine since
it means it won't diverge.
Stefan