Re: CL package serious deficiencies

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 22:10, Nix <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 7 Feb 2012, Lennart Borgman told this:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 22:06, Nix <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 7 Feb 2012, Lennart Borgman verbalised:
>>>
>>>> There are things that do not work if you include cl.el at run time.
>>>> You may not notice the problems and tracking it down has been quite
>>>> difficult some times.
>>>
>>> If so, these are either bugs in cl.el, or bugs in the conflicting
>>> packages, and should surely be fixed, rather than simply trying to avoid
>>> using cl.
>>
>> Fixing the bugs would be better yes. Anyone interested can do that.
>
> Well, if you find out what the problems are, I'll see about fixing them.

I am sorry, but I can't help with that at the moment.

>> But no one has said that cl.el should not be used. I have not seen any
>> problems when the instructions for its use are followed.
>
> Since those instructions amount to 'don't use it except at compile-
> time', this is not incredibly surprising.

I think you are misundering.. ;-) -- or am I misunderstanding you...

The code that uses cl.el must be compiled. Is that a very sever limitation?