Re: PDUMP vs. UNION_TYPE + C++
Jan Vroonhof writes:
Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> dump file `belongs' to that particular binary. One obvious way would
> be to have some unique identifier in each temacs that would get
> written to the temacs.dmp file as well.
And possibly (at least at make install time), actually name the file
temacs.dpm.UNIQUEID so the user can have his personal dump files
around for multiple XEmacsen.
We have two conflicting things here..
- We want to keep the search logic in lisp[1], and thus the dump file
tied to the executable [ELF/COFF session]
- We want to make it possible for users/site to do their down dump
(for instance with the package autoloads preloaded, so XEmacs can
startup quickly). This would suggest NOT tying the dump file to
lisp.
I don't agree about this second objective. Sites can already do
their own customize dumps, via site-load.el. Users can't, but
this is no great loss.