Since Emacs 27 the package cl is deprecated, the replacement is
cl-lib, which is available since Emacs 24.3.
This patch replaces cl by cl-lib and drops support for Emacs versions
less than 24.3. Dropping older Emacsen is required, because cl-lib is
a builtin starting from version 24.3 and doesn't need an extra package
from ELPA.
Testcases for past issues still contain cl. Most of them seem to be
broken and need further investigation.
This patch is tested with test/run-ert.sh, which outputs:
Ran 10 tests, 10 results as expected, 0 unexpected (2021-01-30 13:24:54+0100, 0.672122 sec)
1 expected failures
and manually by daily usage for a month now.
This ensures that they will pick up updates to their parent methods
without having to add any code. In particular, git-svn and emacsmirror
will automatically pick up the new git checksum method.
This includes teaching methods that they now work with a symbolp PACKAGE,
some more cleaning up, and some load-path adjustments now that a part of the
code is in a subdirectory (methods).
Also include some of the tests used to convince oneself that the refactoring
didn't break any and all use cases for el-get, with some rough documentation
about how to use them.