Re: Gnus registry error after upgrade, using emacs23

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> That's right.  In registry.el, it's defined using defmethod, which is
>> something from eieio.el, so maybe the version of eieio.el shipped with
>> gnus is too old?
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this with Emacs 23.  Are you sure you don't have
> bits of older versions of registry/Gnus loaded?

I don't think so.  I checked `M-x list-load-path-shadows' and only found
the expected things, e.g. that the git gnus in my home directory shadows
files from emacs 23.2, and that gnus-fallback-lib/eieio/* shadows files
from emacs 23.2.

I just did another test.  I created a new user, started emacs with
"emacs -q --no-site-file" and then evaluated each of these lines
in the *scratch* buffer:

  (add-to-list 'load-path "/tmp/emacs/gnus/lisp")
  (add-to-list 'load-path "/tmp/emacs/gnus/lisp/gnus-fallback-lib/eieio/")
  (require 'registry)

where /tmp/emacs/gnus is a copy of git gnus as of a couple of weeks ago.
When I evaluated the last one, I got a *Compile-Log* buffer containing:

  Error: Not a lambda list: #[(db) "[lots of 8-bit things deleted]" 
  [db data limit --cl-var-- candidates eieio-oref :data 0 :max-hard
  registry-size :prune-factor nil maphash #[(k --cl-var--) "[more deleted]" 
  [k --cl-var--] 2]] 6 "Collects pruning candidates from the registry-db object THIS.
  Proposes any entries over the max-hard limit minus size * prune-factor."]

Here are the eieio files I have:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc  12617 2011-02-21 09:38 eieio-base.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc   5113 2011-08-30 10:38 eieio-comp.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc  15808 2011-08-30 10:38 eieio-custom.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc   4862 2011-02-21 09:38 eieio-datadebug.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc 117129 2011-08-30 10:38 eieio.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc  21950 2011-08-30 10:38 eieio-opt.el
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc  15789 2011-02-21 09:38 eieio-speedbar.el

And registry.el:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 jdc jdc 18702 2011-08-30 10:38 registry.el

And I'm using

  emacs23 23.2+1-4ubuntu1~ppa3

from 

  https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa

Any ideas?

Dan