Moving to GitHub and cl-lib

[Marco Antoniotti]

On Jan 7, 2014, at 19:24 , João Távora <joaot at siscog.pt> wrote:

> Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>    João> Quite amazing that we actually managed to improve the xemacs experience
>>    João> by removing support for it...
>> 
>> Heh.
>> 
>>    João> But I'm afraid things might get worse sooner rather than later. We'll
>>    João> see: keep using slime!
>> 
>> with something cleaner.  Otherwise, continuing to use git slime will
>> be a pain to maintain.
> 
> I don't know what to say.
> 
> My personal plans would be to completely remove xemacs support (some 400
> of "portability layer" and numerous "(featurep 'xemacs)") hacks that IMO
> hinder progress greatly. Most of the new features that I planned to
> introduce wouldn't work on xemacs anyway, as it doesn't have lexical
> scoping for example.

Wow!  I am really behind in Elisp.  Since when it has lexical scoping?

Cheers
—
MA