From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:53:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83370jdrnc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1775923222.898447.1518559575706@mail.libero.it> <277032065.898859.1518560883271@mail.libero.it> <1901861254.379742.1519646632018@mail.libero.it> <546679939.469612.1522307541367@mail.libero.it> <3b0dd2cd-fd15-c017-7249-7ae2fa567556@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522324329 17346 195.159.176.226 (29 Mar 2018 11:52:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:52:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: angelo.g0@libero.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 29 13:52:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f1W66-0004NI-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:52:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1W8A-0003iD-AQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1W84-0003fu-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:54:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1W7z-0003dy-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1W7z-0003ds-HH; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2154 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f1W7y-0003Se-VG; Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:53:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <3b0dd2cd-fd15-c017-7249-7ae2fa567556@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:34:16 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224148 Archived-At: > From: Daniel Colascione > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:34:16 -0700 > > I'm not sure what's left to test. It works. What's stopping a merge? I think what is left is minor. Some things that come to mind: . Some minimal documentation (manual, NEWS). . I don't think versioned installs are supported, as the code will always try to load emacs.pdmp, AFAIR, even when the binary is called emacs-XX.YY.ZZ. . There's also the issue of the "legacy" dumping. I'm guessing we will want to leave that in the sources for the time being? If so, did anyone try to build the branch using that, and did it work as expected? . One other thing to try is to build on one system, then unpack the binary distro on another binary-compatible system, perhaps with a different directory tree structure, and see if everything works.