Re: Preview: portable dumper

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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.

Indeed, such a change would mean that "the .elc file" would probably be
auto-generated behind the scene on-demand.


        Stefan