GNU bug report logs - #17952
Compatability for eieio between 24.4 and 24.3

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Matthew Fidler <matthew.fidler <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 04:35:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 17952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
To: Matthew Fidler <matthew.fidler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17952: Compatability for eieio between 24.4 and 24.3
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 10:49:15 +0200

Matthew Fidler writes:
> The object-set-name-string function of eieio has changed to
> eieio-object-set-name-string, at one point my code (ergoemacs-mode) depended on
> that function, so I had to use a macro to pick the right version for different
> versions of emacs. 

The usual way for renaming a function in Emacs is to mark it as
deprecated and make it an alias for the new name, and after a few more
Emacs releases remove it altogether. So if you want to stay compatible
with older Emacsen, simply continue to use `object-set-name-string' for
the time being. You will get a warning on byte-compilation, but just
ignore it (or turn off the deprecation warning if it bothers you too
much).

-David
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