From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Preview: portable dumper Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:24:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <047a67ec-9e29-7e4e-0fb0-24c3e59b5886@dancol.org> <83zikjxt1j.fsf@gnu.org> <8360n6ruzu.fsf@gnu.org> <834m2nplmb.fsf@gnu.org> <83inr2oje6.fsf@gnu.org> <83shq6mlt3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480717546 25234 195.159.176.226 (2 Dec 2016 22:25:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 22:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 02 23:25:39 2016 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 1cCwGx-0005LX-8b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 23:25:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36793 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCwH1-0008S7-5T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:25:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35545) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCwGJ-0008JX-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCwGI-0004xK-SD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCwGG-0004tJ-N1; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:24:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cCwGF-0002PT-Kq; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:24:55 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 02 Dec 2016 09:51:57 -0500) 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:209950 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > No. I mean that bytecomp.el would generate a file in a format which > pdumper can use (which has various consequences, such as the fact that > .elc files aren't portable any more). That seems like a big disadvantage to me. This could be sufficient reason just by itself to stick with the current format for elc files. People expect to install one elc file and have it work in multple Emacs versions. Only rarely have we made changes that would prevent this. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.