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bug#25088: 25.1; feature-unload and reload of cl-defstruct fails


From: npostavs
Subject: bug#25088: 25.1; feature-unload and reload of cl-defstruct fails
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 17:38:36 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> How risky is this change?  cl-defstruct is a very widely used macro,
> whereas unload-feature is a relatively obscure feature.  Is it really
> worth fixing the (IMO minor) error and risking to break Emacs 25.2?
>
> I don't have an intuition I can trust in these matters, so I need you
> and others who do to offer their opinions, after carefully considering
> the pros and cons.

I think it's safe, but I've been wrong before.  I agree that
unload-feature is sufficiently obscure that this can go to master
instead of emacs-25.

Perhaps the real bug is that unload-feature doesn't undo `put', thus the
compiler-macro still hangs around.





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