Re: Putting 2fddfb7ce770f into emacs-26?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:29:06 -0800
> 
> I know it's a bit late in the day, but would it be okay to cherry-pick
> 61313f058c7a899c2fbce055d21 from master to emacs-26?

There's no such commit on master, I guess you took the SHA1 from some
local branch of yours.  But I think I've succeeded to guess what you
meant.  It is the commit below, right?

  commit 2fddfb7ce770f61313f058c7a899c2fbce055d21
  Author:     Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden>
  AuthorDate: Sun Oct 22 07:59:29 2017 -0700
  Commit:     Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden>
  CommitDate: Sun Oct 22 07:59:29 2017 -0700

      Handle object string name in eieio-persistent-convert-list-object

      * lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-base.el (eieio-persistent-convert-list-to-object):
        Starting to phase out the printing of object names in
        `object-write', handle either case.

> It's related to how EIEIO objects are written to file. Previously, the
> written representation included a string label, which was later
> obsoleted. Current emacs-26 code *assumes* the presence of a string
> label: it discards it, but will fail without it.
> 
> The change in 61313f058c7a899c2fbce055d21 checks for the label and
> conditionally ignores it, making the code more resilient when reading
> objects written by a wider range of Emacs versions. A bit of
> future-proofing.
> 
> Is that acceptable for emacs-26?

If you meant the above commit, then are you absolutely sure the second
slot can never be a string unless it's the object name?  If you are,
then this is okay for emacs-26.

Thanks.