GNU bug report logs - #25088
25.1; feature-unload and reload of cl-defstruct fails

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Message #11 received at 25088 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25088 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25088: 25.1; feature-unload and reload of cl-defstruct fails
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 17:38:36 -0500

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> How risky is this change?  cl-defstruct is a very widely used macro,
> whereas unload-feature is a relatively obscure feature.  Is it really
> worth fixing the (IMO minor) error and risking to break Emacs 25.2?
>
> I don't have an intuition I can trust in these matters, so I need you
> and others who do to offer their opinions, after carefully considering
> the pros and cons.

I think it's safe, but I've been wrong before.  I agree that
unload-feature is sufficiently obscure that this can go to master
instead of emacs-25.

Perhaps the real bug is that unload-feature doesn't undo `put', thus the
compiler-macro still hangs around.

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