Re: Package cl is deprecated

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:25 PM Thibaut Verron
<thibaut.verron@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 28/07/2021 16:23, Thibaut Verron wrote:
> > On 28/07/2021 16:15, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:04 PM Thibaut Verron
> >> <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On 28/07/2021 15:36, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 9:33 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 9:23 PM Thibaut Verron
> >>>>> <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> On 28/07/2021 15:03, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 6:04 PM Jean-Christophe Helary
> >>>>>>> <lists@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Jul 28, 2021, at 18:54, Thibaut Verron
> >>>>>>>>> <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On 28/07/2021 11:46, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 5:33 PM Thibaut Verron
> >>>>>>>>>> <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> On 28/07/2021 11:23, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> When I start Emacs, I always notice the following message
> >>>>>>>>>>>> in *Messages* buffer:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Package cl is deprecated
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Any hints for eliminating it?
> >>>>>>>>>>> If you have (require 'cl) somewhere in your init file,
> >>>>>>>>>>> replace it with
> >>>>>>>>>>> (require 'cl-lib). You might need to change some macro calls
> >>>>>>>>>>> to use
> >>>>>>>>>>> cl-<name> instead of <name>.
> >>>>>>>>>> $ egrep 'require[ ]*'\''cl' .emacs.d/init.el
> >>>>>>>>>> (require 'cl-lib)
> >>>>>>>>> Then it's from a package and you need to identify it.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> You can try (untested):
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> find .emacs.d/ -name "*.el" -exec grep "(require 'cl)" {} \;
> >>>>>>>> find .emacs.d/ -name "*.el" -exec grep "(require 'cl)" {} \;
> >>>>>>>> -print
> >>>>>>> There are so many matches:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> $ find .emacs.d/ -name "*.el" -exec grep -q "(require 'cl)" {} \;
> >>>>>>> -print 2>/dev/null | sort -u | wc -l
> >>>>>>> 40
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> So this method is basically useless for finding the problem.
> >>>>>> I just tried it, indeed quite a few packages contain some form of
> >>>>>> (require 'cl) as a backward-compatibility tool (52 matches in my
> >>>>>> case).
> >>>>>> Most of those are test files which are never loaded in a normal
> >>>>>> emacs
> >>>>>> session.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> To narrow the search, you can use egrep -q "^\(require 'cl\)"
> >>>>>> instead.
> >>>>>> In my .emacs, the matches go from 52 to 15. Interestingly enough,
> >>>>>> exactly one of them is loaded at init time (key-combo.el),
> >>>>>> without any
> >>>>>> warning.
> >>>>> Strange, I found nothing with this enhanced pattern:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> $ find .emacs.d/ -type f -name "*.el" -exec grep -q "^[ ]*\([
> >>>>> ]*require[ ]+'cl[ ]*\)" {} \; -print | wc -l
> >>>>> 0
> >>>> Sorry, egrep should be used:
> >>>>
> >>>> $ find .emacs.d/ -type f -name "*.el" -exec egrep -q "^[ ]*\([
> >>>> ]*require[ ]+'cl[ ]*\)" {} \; -print | egrep -v '[/]tests?[/]'
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/dash.el/dash.el
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/dash.el/dev/examples.el
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/stardiviner-sdcv.el/sdcv.el
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/showtip/showtip.el
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/unicode-escape.el/unicode-escape.el
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/use-package/use-package-tests.el
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/macrostep/lib/cl-lib.el
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/macrostep/lib/ert.el
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/emacs-websocket/websocket-functional-test.el
> >>>> .emacs.d/straight/repos/s.el/dev/ert.el
> >>> The point of the regexp was to exclude files which have something
> >>> (including indentation) before the form, if you allow [ ]* you lose
> >>> that. That's the case in dash.el for example.
> >>>
> >>> In any case, the number of candidates is now small enough that you can
> >>> examine them. The dev/ and lib/ folders can probably be safely
> >>> ignored to.
> >> If so, nothing seems responsible for the problem:
> >>
> >> $ find .emacs.d/ -type f -name "*.el" -exec egrep -q "^\(require
> >> 'cl\)" {} \; -print |egrep -v  '[/]tests?[/]'
> >> .emacs.d/straight/repos/use-package/use-package-tests.el
> >> .emacs.d/straight/repos/macrostep/lib/cl-lib.el
> >> .emacs.d/straight/repos/emacs-websocket/websocket-functional-test.el
> >
> > Then I guess you will have to check the other candidates, sorry. I'd
> > start with the 10 you found above, and then move to the other 30 if
> > necessary.
>
> showtip.el is one.

I've changed the corresponding lines into the following:

(eval-when-compile
  (require 'cl-lib))

But Emacs still reports the same messages, so there must be other culprits.

Hongyi
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