Re: Some vc-dispatcher nitpicks

[Eric S. Raymond]

John Paul Wallington <address@hidden>:
> `gensym' is a function rather than a macro and it apparently doesn't  
> have a corresponding compiler macro.  Use or loading of cl at runtime by 
> packages that are installed in the Emacs sources is verboten.

Hmmm...can anyone explain why that is?  It should be docunted somewhere.

> Is it okay to install the following patch?

Yes, that looks good.  Thanks.  It might be possible to remove the eval-compile 
of cl, as well, once you've done this; you'd be doing me a favor if you checked.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>