Re: Finding the dump

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> 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".