>>>> "juhp" == Jens Petersen
<petersen(a)redhat.com> writes:
juhp> Still how hard would it be to say first test the current
juhp> directory and then then look in libdir for a the dump file?
It could be done easily, at the price of putting crap in C that
doesn't belong there. C sucks badly at dealing with files that aren't
there, aren't readable, are automounted, etc, etc. Backing out of
such bogus situations is precisely what Lisp is good at.
Michael says that he found dozens of bugs in the process of figuring
what XEmacs was _actually_ doing so that he could decide what he
really needed to be backward compatible with. Why reintroduce that?
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