Re: Should we just start dumping cl-lib?

[Mark Oteiza]

On 02/10/15 at 04:45pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 07:46:46 -0400
> > 
> > I'd be happy to have more useful functions in "core". (Can we have
> > `filter` yet?)
> 
> Please always accompany such suggestions with rationale.  Adding to
> the core just because "why not?" is IMO not a good methodology.  Some
> people still care about the memory footprint of programs, so we don't
> want to bloat that unless there are good reasons.  Such reasons can
> only be discussed on a case by case basis.

Understood, thanks.

Regarding the breakage with winner.el, I don't understand why under some
circumstances nothing seems to break if cl- functions are used at
runtime in things with only `(eval-when-compile (require 'cl-lib))`. For
instance, git-grepping for 'cl-remove-if' I see package.el and
checkdoc.el don't require cl-lib at runtime.