From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Finding the dump Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 05:38:20 +0200 Message-ID: <837eep4fkj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83munr8jb1.fsf@gnu.org> <838szb8ey9.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0oj62bc.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef8z4g1m.fsf@igel.home> <838sz75u7p.fsf@gnu.org> <877eer4e4x.fsf@igel.home> <835zub5p3i.fsf@gnu.org> <8736pf408v.fsf@igel.home> <83womq3z5c.fsf@gnu.org> <871s4yxfvb.fsf@igel.home> <83o9823xcq.fsf@gnu.org> <87womqvyy4.fsf@igel.home> <4f30b2b598e71d2c6ad766a3da8e4a33.squirrel@dancol.org> <87o982vszn.fsf@igel.home> <87k1ipx3jq.fsf@igel.home> <87bm41wzmv.fsf@igel.home> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="177248"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, dancol@dancol.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 04:53:44 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnxzS-000jyp-MX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 04:53:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnxzR-0004Ng-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:53:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60373) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnxzM-0004HR-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:53:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gnxkp-0004ow-8Z; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:38:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4142 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gnxko-0007G8-Sl; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:38:35 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 27 Jan 2019 15:47:06 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:232749 Archived-At: > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 15:47:06 -0800 > > This discussion is reminding me what a hassle that dump file is. I plan to look > into the possibility of putting the dump file inside the executable (portably, > of course) so that Emacs startup needn't worry about finding the dump file. This > would be significantly better for installers and users. I very much doubt that you could do that portably, let alone allow repeated dumping after the initial one. I really don't see why we should waste our energy on making the Emacs package one file less (out of 3000 it already has). There's nothing wrong with having a file we load at startup before we get a fully functional Emacs. It certainly isn't a "hassle".