Re: Lisp files that load cl-lib in problematical ways

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>,  incal@dataswamp.org,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:44:51 -0400
>> 
>> Okay, I confirm that comp.el loads cl-lib, so any jit compilation
>> triggered loads that.
>
> This is OK, not a problem.
>
>> OTOH one thing we could do, if that's important, is to split the code
>> that only drives the async compilation (that actually happens in a
>> subprocess) so we don't load cl-lib in the Emacs the user is actually
>> using.  This should not be that hard (optimism mode on).
>
> I don't see the need, but I will not object if you want to make such
> changes.

Okay I'll think about it, might be a positive change even leaving aside
the cl-lib discussion.

Thanks

  Andrea