Re: Has eval-and-compile changed in emacs 27?

[Leo Liu]

On 2021-02-26 09:21 +0000, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> What's new in Emacs 27 is auth-source now does
>
>   (require 'cl-lib)
>
> instead of
>
>   (eval-when-compile (require 'cl-lib))
>
> lisp/auth-source.el: Depend on cl-lib unconditionally
> 90a7cd073b 2019-11-26 14:00:25 +0100
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=90a7cd073bfc7461e0bc824e9883499fe9026727
>
> In turn, url-parse does
>
>   (require 'auth-source)
>
> and erldoc does
>
>   (eval-when-compile (require 'url-parse))
>   (require 'cl-lib)
>
> This combination seems to confuse the byte-compiler.

Great discovery. It is sad that this is happening. Will wait to see if
others get annoyed by this inadequacy.