Re: [cedet-eieio] Cleaning up the EIEIO namespace

[David Engster]

Stefan Monnier writes:
>>> Actually, there's a misunderstanding here:
>>> - setf was indeed part of CL, but being a macro it was accepted
>>> (i.e. you don't need to have it defined at run-time, since it's
>
>>> macro-expanded during compilation).
>>> - setf is part of core Elisp in Emacs-24.3.
>>> So maybe we don't need oref/oset at all.
>> Yes, although I like "(oset foo bar 'baz)" much better than the verbose
>> (setf (cl-slot-value foo 'bar) 'baz)
>> But I can understand that you want to get rid of it, and package writers
>> can still define their own macros/accessors.
>
> I actually don't particular care if we keep them or not, except that if
> we keep them, we need to give them a prefix.

OK. I guess we'd have to use eieio-oref/oset then, since those functions
are not from CLOS (given that 'cl' means that thing I thought it means,
but I might just be confused :) ).

>> Our problem on the CEDET side is that we want to stay compatible with
>> older Emacsen, so we'll need some compat package.
>
> We can either introduce an eieio-compat package full of defaliases, or
> do what we did with cl/cl-lib and turn eieio.el into a deprecated compat
> package (and introduce a new package eieio-lib to replace it).

I meant a compat package in CEDET upstream, so that it can run on older
Emacsen if we stop shipping our own EIEIO version. As long as we're
obsolete-aliasing the old names, I don't see why we would need a compat
package in Emacs?

-David